{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Midnight Motivation","description":"It\u2019s 11:20 right now and I\u2019m eating a brownie, but tomorrow, no more sweets - it\u2019s zero sugar for me. And exercise, all of it. Every day. And cleaning? My house is going to be spotless. Email? Say hello to inbox zero. And no more TV or video games, only highly enriching activities for me from now on. All I have to do is follow the plan. What is the plan? That\u2019s not important right now. I\u2019ll figure that out tomorrow. For now, I\u2019m going to bask in the glory of what is to come. All right, let\u2019s get back to reality - although I really did write this at 11:20\u2026 and while those may not be my thoughts exactly, they aren\u2019t that far off from ideas I\u2019ve had in the past. I mean, they weren\u2019t good ideas, but ideas nonetheless. So today we\u2019re talking about midnight motivation - that late-night urge to turn your life around that somehow doesn\u2019t translate into the next day. We\u2019re going to be talking about why, in the quiet of the night, we become these master architects of our own lives, designing sprawling mansions of productivity because we don\u2019t have to worry about the cost of materials or even the laws of physics. But when we wake up, we\u2019re no longer the architect; we\u2019re the contractor. Or maybe even more accurately, the subcontractor who has been handed some hastily drawn out plans on the back of a bar napkin. So in this episode, we\u2019re going to look at why our ADHD brains love building these "theoretical" lives when the world is on pause and how we can start translating those blueprints into something we can actually build during the daylight hours. If you'd life to follow along on the show notes page you can find that at HackingYourADHD.com\/284 YouTube: https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y835cnrk Patreon: https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/HackingYourADHD This Episode's Top Tips We need to understand that late-night motivation isn't really potential energy(pulling back the bowstring), but rather it's theoretical energy (you're just thinking about the bow). Recognizing this distinction is important in understanding why we never \u201crelease the arrow" in the morning; we never actually pulled the string back in the first place. While it does feel like planning, thinking about doing something isn\u2019t the same as planning, and thinking about planning also isn\u2019t the same thing as planning. This is important to remember because even though it's not really planning, it still feels like we are, and when we don\u2019t follow through with those not-plans, it also still feels bad. We want to shift our focus from the Vision (the dopamine-heavy end goal) to the Logistics (the boring friction). A plan isn't a plan if it isn\u2019t accounting for all those logistical pieces. If the logistics aren't there, your brain will bail the moment you hit a "hidden" step. By moving "theoretical" plans into a physical calendar, we are better able to see our existing commitments in a visual space. We don't have infinite time, and if we want to start something new, we have to be able to fit it into the calendar.   ","author_name":"Hacking Your ADHD","author_url":"http:\/\/www.hackingyouradhd.com","html":"