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Planuary Includes Watching Videos

Christine Hennebury

So far, Planuary is going well.

In the fitness category, I have been puttering around with yoga, and walks, and some core work. In the other categories of my life, I have been writing, making lists, sorting things, and so on.

I really like doing all of these things at a slower pace and figuring them out as I go and I love the fact that I am not trying to figure out a whole year at once.

As part of my thinking process, for Planuary and for the Go Team! posts I have been watching a few videos about New Years Resolutions and I thought you might enjoy them, too.

Here’s Jessica McCabe from How to ADHD with a great video called Why Smart Goals Are Not Always Smart – about why SMART goals might not work for neurodivergent people. As someone who struggles with the SMART goal format, and someone who has happily worked toward ridiculously big goals without a clear plan, I really enjoyed her advice.

Still image is of channel host Jessica McCabe, a woman in a blue sweatshirt with long red hair, standing on the left side of the image, looking upwards. On the right side of the image is the title ‘Smart Goals Are Not Always Smart.’

And here’s a terrific video from therapist Mickey Atkins called Why Your Resolutions are Failing if You Have ADHD. She is NOT a fan of New Year’s Resolutions and I really enjoy how she frames the problem, referencing ADHD, capitalism, and diet culture. She also recommends not trying to plan a year at a time so I especially liked that.

She swears a lot in this one so if you find that upsetting, choose wisely.

Still image is of the host, a woman with long reddish hair an a nose ring, wearing a green sweater, standing on the right side of the image, looking upward and pointing her right index finger like she is listing something or pointing out something obvious. The background isa bunch of coloured papers tacked to a corkboard, and white text reading ‘If you have ADHD this won’t work for you’ is on the left side of the image.

And I am a fan of this Instagram post by Brea Johnson of Heart and Bones Yoga that rejects the whole idea of ‘new year, new you’ and makes a bunch of suggestions about how to take good care of ourselves.

embedded image from Instagram that shows the owner of the account, wearing exercise clothes in a gym, pulling on a rope like she is in a tug-of-war.

Have you watched any good videos on this sort of topic lately? If so, please link them in the comments.

Published by Christine Hennebury

I'm a writer/storyteller/director/creativity & lifestory coach with a black belt in ITF Taekwon-do. I read voraciously and I write like my fingers are on fire. I'm the founder and Chair of the Association for the Arts in Mount Pearl and I'm a former president of the St. John's Storytelling Festival. I bake a mean chocolate chip cookie.