Important but Not Urgent: Getting to Your Big Rocks – with Kim Kensington, Psy.D

You know those goals with no deadlines? The stuff that’s actually really important to your well-being, and, dare I say it, your soul? (I can say stuff like that because I live in California.) The projects that keep losing out in the competition for your limited time, energy and focus? I want to help you get to those.

ADHD can make getting to them a lot harder. I’ll discuss some of the reasons for this in the context of concrete strategies that have a shot at working for you. I’ll suggest ways to integrate them into your days, weeks and/or months. I’ll also talk about activation, initiation and task-shifting.

I’m serious about helping you get started. While you are listening to me, you might approach something you’ve been meaning to get to, such as (cautiously) cleaning out the spider web in your old guitar. If you are away, or otherwise occupied, (I’m pretty sure you aren’t sitting still for this), I hope to offer you a surplus of ideas possibly including some you haven’t already tried. This presentation will be less theoretical than practical. Because, as you probably know, “ADHD isn’t a disorder of not knowing what to do. It’s a disorder of not doing what we know.” Russell Barkley, PhD (I think.)