Hey Team,
Your new habits and practices will be stronger if they are built on reality rather than on an attempt at perfection.
Some days are going to be challenging, some days are going to go sideways, some days you’ll be sick, or you’ll have an injury, sometimes you’ll sleep so poorly that it will feel like your ADHD meds aren’t working at all and you’ll feel like you are dragging yourself through mud just to get your basic tasks done.*
When those things happen, please give yourself a break.
That may mean doing your practice without your usual enthusiasm, it may mean modifying your practice or doing the bare minimum, it may mean opting out of your practice entirely and it definitely means being kind to yourself about the whole thing.
If today is too complicated, too hard, or too unmedicated-feeling, practicing self-compassion is the only sensible way forward.
In case the specificity of that last example didn’t give me away, I didn’t sleep well last night and I feel unmedicated and I have been dragging myself through metaphorical mud to do necessary tasks.
At first, I was trying to write the post I had planned but when I couldn’t get my ideas to weave together I decided to take the advice I would give to someone else:
Give Yourself A Break
And I did.
So, as so often happens, this post is not just advice for you – it’s also advice for me.
I hope I’m being a good example of how to dial things back on more challenging days.
As always, here is your gold star for your efforts today. Those efforts may be working towards your new practice or they may be directed towards giving yourself a break and practising self-kindness.
Either way, you get a gold star for your hard work.
Go Team Us!
