YouTube video by Katie McManus offering practical advice for achieving New Year’s goals. In this excerpt she urges viewers to invest in guided learning (e.g., classes or experts) rather than attempting unfamiliar activities alone, and notes that people with ADHD can learn quickly but become discouraged when not set up to learn efficiently.
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So please, for the love of Dolly Parton. Well, I have love for you too, honey. If you're committing to doing something you've never done, set yourself up for success. Invest in something that is going to help you reach that goal. Because you can't go to a place that you've never been to before without directions. If this is a fitness goal, I want you to invest in something that will show you the way to reach whatever fitness goal you have. If this is a creative goal, maybe you want to learn how to paint. You know, don't just buy a paint set. You don't know how to do this. Go and sign up for a class. Learn something. Go to an expert who can show you. Here's the best way to do it. We have adhd. So, like, we learn things really fast, we get good at things really fast. But when we're trying to do something that we've never done before without any guidance on how to do it, we're bad at it. And that's really frustrating. And that's where we tend to give up on our goals. Because who wants to be bad at something for longer than a day? We learn things really quickly. Set yourself up to learn it quickly.