Adult ADHD ADD Tips and Support

ADHD Goal Avoidance – How to Overcome the Aversion to Goal Setting


Listen Later

Adult ADHD ADD Tips and Support Podcast – A Podcast for Neurodivergent Creatives. ADHD Goal Avoidance – How to Overcome the Aversion to Goal Setting. This podcast is an audio companion to the book “The Drummer and the Great Mountain – A Guidebook to Transforming Adult ADD / ADHD.”

For many of us, the word “goal” has all kinds of negative associations. It can remind us of past failures, our short-comings, and our challenge with short and long-term planning.

Because of how our hyper-creative brain works, our dopamine receptors, and challenges with executive functioning, we often have an initial burst of inspiration…

But that initial energy tends to wane and we’re left with a list of flat and possibly overwhelming goals that we never look at again.

However, knowing how to work with goals is essential to making forward progress in your life.

In this episode we explore a very simple trick that will completely change how you think about goals and we’ll leave you with a clear exercise to make goal setting far more ADHD-friendly. 

Links Mentioned in this Episode:

  • (WORKSHOP) Annual Life Visioning Workshop – Jan 24 & 31
  • (WEBSITE) Mike Starkey – ADHD & Addiction
  • (SOCIAL MEDIA) @adultadhdtips one Instagram
  • (SOCIAL MEDIA) @adhdneurodivergent on BlueSky
  • (PDF) Our Free ADHD Toolkit – All Worksheets from Previous Podcast Episodes
  • Don’t see a player? Click this link to download the MP3 file.

    If you have an Apple device (iPhone/iPad), you can download the podcast (and subscribe) for free at this link:

    https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/adult-adhd-add-tips-support/id988935339

    Visit the podcast web page to listen to all 122 episodes:

    http://www.drummerandthegreatmountain.com/adult-adhd-add-podcast

    >> Take the ADHD Hunter-type Quiz

    Outro voice over by Lauren Regan

    Outro music by Bahman Sarram

    For more info, visit: http://www.DrummerAndTheGreatMountain.com

    ...more
    View all episodesView all episodes
    Download on the App Store

    Adult ADHD ADD Tips and SupportBy Michael Joseph Ferguson

    • 4.6
    • 4.6
    • 4.6
    • 4.6
    • 4.6

    4.6

    330 ratings


    More shows like Adult ADHD ADD Tips and Support

    View all
    ADHD Experts Podcast by ADDitude

    ADHD Experts Podcast

    1,332 Listeners

    ADHD reWired by Eric Tivers, LCSW, ADHD-CCSP

    ADHD reWired

    909 Listeners

    Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast by TruStory FM

    Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast

    441 Listeners

    Overcoming Distractions-Thriving with ADHD, ADD by David A Greenwood

    Overcoming Distractions-Thriving with ADHD, ADD

    123 Listeners

    It's The ADHD-Friendly Show | Personal Growth, Well-being and Productivity for Distractible Minds by Caren Magill

    It's The ADHD-Friendly Show | Personal Growth, Well-being and Productivity for Distractible Minds

    113 Listeners

    The Adulting With ADHD Podcast by Sarah Snyder

    The Adulting With ADHD Podcast

    94 Listeners

    ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka by Tracy Otsuka

    ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

    1,541 Listeners

    I Have ADHD Podcast by Kristen Carder

    I Have ADHD Podcast

    2,895 Listeners

    Hacking Your ADHD by William Curb

    Hacking Your ADHD

    728 Listeners

    Women & ADHD by Katy Weber

    Women & ADHD

    633 Listeners

    ADHD Aha! by Understood.org, Laura Key

    ADHD Aha!

    173 Listeners

    The ADHD Adults Podcast by James Brown, Alex Conner and Sam Brown

    The ADHD Adults Podcast

    50 Listeners

    ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast by Kate Moryoussef

    ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast

    171 Listeners

    The ADHD Skills Lab by Skye Waterson

    The ADHD Skills Lab

    96 Listeners

    MissUnderstood: The ADHD in Women Channel by Understood.org

    MissUnderstood: The ADHD in Women Channel

    74 Listeners