Module 1 Motivation Activity Example: how to
keep a calendar...
Wed, 4/27 9:23AM 5:01
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
feel, calendar, digging, rewrite, reasons, story, successful, kids, skills, hot mess, coming, repairing,
spinning, prepared, important, adhd, person, brains, competent, end result
SPEAKERS
Patricia Sung
Patricia Sung 00:00
Hey there. So as part of module one, our activity is to dig in and figure out why is it that we are
doing this? What's our motivation? And for ADHD brains, a lot of times, it's just helpful for us to
have an example of what does this look like. And then it's easier for us to get to the end result.
So I'm going to walk you through why it is that I decided to get a handle on my calendar. And
for you, it might be a totally different story. That's okay. I don't want your reasons to be my
reasons. But I want you to understand, these are the kinds of questions you're asking in order
to find what yours are.
Patricia Sung 00:33
So I realized I needed to get something done about my calendar, when I was just a mess all the
time, I always felt like I was a few steps behind and running late to things and getting surprised
by stuff that was coming. And I was tired of feeling like a hot mess all the time. So what do I
want from that? Like, what's the actual solution I'm looking for is I want to feel calm, I want to
feel peaceful, I want to feel I don't like the term in control of your day, because we're never in
control of our day. But I want to feel competent, prepared for what I expect to come in,
hopefully, a little prepared for what I don't expect it to come. And how am I going to fix this?
Like, I don't want to spend the whole day panicking and fixing problems, like I want to see them
coming.
Patricia Sung 01:24
So I knew that I had to like look ahead and see what was coming so that I could save time save
the headache. Why do I want to save all that frustration is because I want to feel competent, I
want to feel successful. A lot of it has to do with repairing my self image, I don't want to be
always feeling like I'm the person who's always late and always, like you're responsible, I want
to have a different story, I want to rewrite that story that I am failing. And so that's one of my