Comments on: A New Year’s Theme. An Alternative to New Year’s Resolutions http://adultaddstrengths.com/2006/01/03/a-new-years-theme-an-alternative-to-new-year%e2%80%99s-resolutions/ A Blog about Adults with Attention Surplus Condition (aka ADHD) by Adult ADHD Coach Pete Quily Fri, 18 May 2012 21:34:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Pete Quily http://adultaddstrengths.com/2006/01/03/a-new-years-theme-an-alternative-to-new-year%e2%80%99s-resolutions/comment-page-1/#comment-1328562 Pete Quily Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:59:32 +0000 http://adultaddstrengths.com/2006/01/03/a-new-years-theme-an-alternative-to-new-year%e2%80%99s-resolutions/#comment-1328562 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">A New Year’s Theme. An Alternative to New Year’s Resolutions. An #ADHD coaches suggestion http://bit.ly/8xv9oA</span></span> A New Year’s Theme. An Alternative to New Year’s Resolutions. An #ADHD coaches suggestion http://bit.ly/8xv9oA

]]> By: Beth/Mom2TwoVikings http://adultaddstrengths.com/2006/01/03/a-new-years-theme-an-alternative-to-new-year%e2%80%99s-resolutions/comment-page-1/#comment-1346472 Beth/Mom2TwoVikings Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:48:43 +0000 http://adultaddstrengths.com/2006/01/03/a-new-years-theme-an-alternative-to-new-year%e2%80%99s-resolutions/#comment-1346472 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">w/regard to last tweet (LOL) goal setting for ADD-ers: @petequily 's http://tinyurl.com/2y48zs and @addmoms 's http://tinyurl.com/y8hj4af</span></span> w/regard to last tweet (LOL) goal setting for ADD-ers: @petequily 's http://tinyurl.com/2y48zs and @addmoms 's http://tinyurl.com/y8hj4af

]]> By: Beth/Mom2TwoVikings http://adultaddstrengths.com/2006/01/03/a-new-years-theme-an-alternative-to-new-year%e2%80%99s-resolutions/comment-page-1/#comment-1328563 Beth/Mom2TwoVikings Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:48:43 +0000 http://adultaddstrengths.com/2006/01/03/a-new-years-theme-an-alternative-to-new-year%e2%80%99s-resolutions/#comment-1328563 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">w/regard to last tweet (LOL) goal setting for ADD-ers: @petequily 's http://tinyurl.com/2y48zs and @addmoms 's http://tinyurl.com/y8hj4af</span></span> w/regard to last tweet (LOL) goal setting for ADD-ers: @petequily 's http://tinyurl.com/2y48zs and @addmoms 's http://tinyurl.com/y8hj4af

]]> By: Pete Quily http://adultaddstrengths.com/2006/01/03/a-new-years-theme-an-alternative-to-new-year%e2%80%99s-resolutions/comment-page-1/#comment-1328564 Pete Quily Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:27:57 +0000 http://adultaddstrengths.com/2006/01/03/a-new-years-theme-an-alternative-to-new-year%e2%80%99s-resolutions/#comment-1328564 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">A New Year’s Theme. An Alternative to New Year’s Resolutions that you don't start till january http://bit.ly/8xv9oA</span></span> A New Year’s Theme. An Alternative to New Year’s Resolutions that you don't start till january http://bit.ly/8xv9oA

]]> By: Was Your New Year’s Resolution A Wish or a Resolution? http://adultaddstrengths.com/2006/01/03/a-new-years-theme-an-alternative-to-new-year%e2%80%99s-resolutions/comment-page-1/#comment-1055325 Was Your New Year’s Resolution A Wish or a Resolution? Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:54:24 +0000 http://adultaddstrengths.com/2006/01/03/a-new-years-theme-an-alternative-to-new-year%e2%80%99s-resolutions/#comment-1055325 [...] For those of you who have trouble with New Year’s resolutions, you might check out this post I did in 2006 called A New Year’s Theme. An Alternative to New Year’s Resolutions [...] [...] For those of you who have trouble with New Year’s resolutions, you might check out this post I did in 2006 called A New Year’s Theme. An Alternative to New Year’s Resolutions [...]

]]> By: Adult ADD Strengths » An Alternative to New Year’s Resolutions. A New Year’s Theme 2007 http://adultaddstrengths.com/2006/01/03/a-new-years-theme-an-alternative-to-new-year%e2%80%99s-resolutions/comment-page-1/#comment-127816 Adult ADD Strengths » An Alternative to New Year’s Resolutions. A New Year’s Theme 2007 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 08:33:29 +0000 http://adultaddstrengths.com/2006/01/03/a-new-years-theme-an-alternative-to-new-year%e2%80%99s-resolutions/#comment-127816 [...] I did this post last year and given the time of season, I thought it’d be useful to repost it. Enjoy. [...] [...] I did this post last year and given the time of season, I thought it’d be useful to repost it. Enjoy. [...]

]]> By: Pete Quily http://adultaddstrengths.com/2006/01/03/a-new-years-theme-an-alternative-to-new-year%e2%80%99s-resolutions/comment-page-1/#comment-6812 Pete Quily Sat, 07 Jan 2006 06:54:01 +0000 http://adultaddstrengths.com/2006/01/03/a-new-years-theme-an-alternative-to-new-year%e2%80%99s-resolutions/#comment-6812 Thanks Gerard, reframing is quite powerful if people are open to it. You've got it right, ADDers do need some type of structure or we can wander all over the map, but if it's too tight or has no room for sponteneity, we rebel or give up. Pete Thanks Gerard,

reframing is quite powerful if people are open to it. You’ve got it right, ADDers do need some type of structure or we can wander all over the map, but if it’s too tight or has no room for sponteneity, we rebel or give up.

Pete

]]> By: Gerard Montigny http://adultaddstrengths.com/2006/01/03/a-new-years-theme-an-alternative-to-new-year%e2%80%99s-resolutions/comment-page-1/#comment-6723 Gerard Montigny Wed, 04 Jan 2006 14:23:04 +0000 http://adultaddstrengths.com/2006/01/03/a-new-years-theme-an-alternative-to-new-year%e2%80%99s-resolutions/#comment-6723 Hello and Happy New Year to you Peter This is an excellent post, I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I think you are onto something with this in terms of a perceptual reframe. I suspect that the tools provided in this post will be beneficial in several ways. One being a reframe situation helping people let to go of old hang-ups around failed resolutions, this is great. Another one being the broad umbrella of themes as opposed to specific/independent outcomes (goals) set on the first day of the year. I like this because (that is if I understand it) it will easily allow individuals to tap in to the idea of life as creative metaphor (just how I would personally frame themes in my own life). Definitely an approach that is a good mix of the "not too tight and not too lose" in that there is enough structure to set broader goals while maintaining enough flexibility for the creative and nonlinear predispositions experienced by many of those diagnosed with ADHD. Thanks for sharing Hello and Happy New Year to you Peter

This is an excellent post, I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I think you are onto something with this in terms of a perceptual reframe. I suspect that the tools provided in this post will be beneficial in several ways. One being a reframe situation helping people let to go of old hang-ups around failed resolutions, this is great. Another one being the broad umbrella of themes as opposed to specific/independent outcomes (goals) set on the first day of the year.

I like this because (that is if I understand it) it will easily allow individuals to tap in to the idea of life as creative metaphor (just how I would personally frame themes in my own life). Definitely an approach that is a good mix of the “not too tight and not too lose” in that there is enough structure to set broader goals while maintaining enough flexibility for the creative and nonlinear predispositions experienced by many of those diagnosed with ADHD.

Thanks for sharing

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