Celebrate Your ADHD Uniqueness

1. What was the most unexpected thing, outcome or challenge you had this last year?
2. What strengths and values supported you through these?
3. What are the things you know now that you didn’t know before?
4. Who are you now after having this experience?
5. What will you celebrate and make part of your life next year?

Here are my answers to help you get started. Getting started is the hardest part, right?

1. The most unexpected thing was getting an opportunity to explore the Positive Intelligence program. Then, deciding to train and become a PQ coach. My challenge has been managing menopause symptoms that drain my energy, make me fuzzy in the head, and cause inexplicable pain and weight gain. 
2. The strengths that helped me through have been – outside the box thinking (no pun intended, I just can’t think of a better way to put it.), willingness to be responsible for my happiness and finding enjoyment in everyday things. Body-based awareness. The values I pulled on – continuous practical learning, ingenuity and integrity. 
3. I now know that I had premature peri-menopause from my late twenties until I was in my forties. I now know that my hyper-achiever and hyper-rational saboteurs are very clever at disguising themselves as something good for me and my goals.
4. I am more and more myself.  I have even more affinity with the experiences of those around me, which has expanded my empathy, innovation and purpose.
5. I will celebrate the expansion of my understanding of what it is to be a human in this world. I will celebrate what my body can do and not be hard on myself for what it can’t do. I celebrate getting the all clear of five years in remission from my Gynecologist Oncologist; woo hoo! I will celebrate all my opportunities, whether I took them or not.