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An ADHDers Guide to Movitation Part II: Goals
We’ve all absorbed a lot of messages about goals over our lifetimes, and felt a lot of guilt around them. Not setting them, setting them, failing to achieve them or having other people lecture us endlessly about how they’re the key to unlock our issues! We feel the drive to do something, we set a goal to achieve it and… oh shit… where did the motivation go? They’re essential, and they don’t work for us.
An ADHDers Guide to Motivation Part I: Intro
Motivation is a thorny issue for us. A lot of us have been repeatedly told we’re lazy, we just need to focus more or we’ll never get anywhere if we can’t stick to one thing. We’re constantly looking for motivation hacks so we can finally achieve what everyone else seems to do without trying.
Helpfully, a lot of psychological research has been done on motivation - both for neurotypical and neurodivergent people. Unhelpfully, the “common sense” principles of motivation in most people’s heads were mainstream before we had pocket calculators.
So my goal is to take you on a tour of more modern motivational theory. The overarching theory, how it applies to ADHDers and what that means in practice for us.