Important But Not Urgent (IBNU)

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

I’ve been thinking about the phrase, “I want to hit the ground running,” and how that’s kind of how many of us try and start the year. I know that’s how I felt - and honestly, in that first week of the year, I was doing great… but then I got covid. That really threw a snag into things.

With ADHD we tend to like to go fast with things; we don’t want to wait around. But that’s usually not actually our best strategy. Going from one urgent task to the next can keep us motivated, but it can make it hard to get to anything that isn’t urgent.

In today’s episode, we’re going to be exploring how we use urgency as a drive to get more done but how we also need to learn to make time for all those important but not urgent tasks.

If you'd life to follow along on the show notes page you can find that at HackingYourADHD.com/ibnu

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This Episode’s Top Tips

Just because something feels urgent doesn’t mean that it’s actually important that we do it right that instant. We often have
We often use deadlines to motivate ourselves into doing the important things, but living deadline to deadline only allows us to work on things that at urgent and let’s many things that are important but not urgent fall by the wayside.
Using accountability is a great way for us to follow through with our plans to complete all of our important but not urgent tasks. We can do this either through creating artificial deadlines or through co-working.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD ReWired Podcast Network.
0:10.0	I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD.
0:13.8	On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with
0:18.2	your ADHD brain.
0:21.6	I've been thinking about the phrase, I want to hit the ground running, and that's kind
0:25.6	of how many of us try to start the year.
0:27.6	I know it's how I felt, and honestly, in that first week of the year, I was doing great, but
0:33.6	then I got COVID.
0:35.6	That really threw us nag into things. With ADHD, we tend really threw a snag into things.
0:41.4	With ADHD, we tend to like to go fast with things.
0:43.0	We don't want to wait around.
0:46.3	But that's usually not actually our best strategy.
0:50.6	Going from one urgent task the next can keep us motivated,
0:53.7	but it can make it hard to get to the things that aren't urgent.
0:59.6	In today's episode, we're going to be exploring how we use urgency as a drive to get more done,
1:05.6	but how we also need to learn to make more time for those things that are important, but not urgent.
1:12.5	If you'd like to follow along on the show notes page, you can find that at hacking your ADHD.com slash ibNU.
1:16.8	Today's podcast is brought to you by Athletic Greens.
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