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Bonus New Year's Eve Prep: 3 Tips to Start 2026 The ADHD-Friendly Way · JOY LOVING HOME - SAHM, Productivity, Home Organization, Declutter, ADHD Mom, ADHD SAHM, ADHD Brain

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  Before I close out 2025, I wanted to record one last podcast to just share some
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  quick tips to start your new year right.
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  But before I jump into those, I just wanted to thank you for all of you who
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  have been listening in 2025.
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  And before that, I am so grateful for you and all that you have contributed
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  in the way of emails or membership programs.
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  Participation or just being in the free community.
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  I have great goals for 2026 as we all do and should.
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  And I just thank those of you who have been part of my journey up to this point.
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  So just sending out love and appreciation. If you ever want to reach my way
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  and send me a note or thoughts or ideas or any of feedback, I am joy at joylovinghome.com
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  and love, love to hear from you all.
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  So please don't hesitate to share any thoughts that you have.
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  I would greatly appreciate it.
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  All right, let's jump into three quick tips that help us start our new year
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  right with our crazy ADHD fish brains. Here's our problem.
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  We will begin hearing about all of the productivity and starting the new year
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  right and new year, new you type of conversations of how to do things differently.
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  Like you're just going to suddenly get it all right this year.
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  And I love the enthusiasm and I don't want to dampen that in any way, shape or form.
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  But I want to put three things in place that are going to make it a little more realistic for us.
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  And for those of you in particular that feel like you're already behind because
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  you've bumped into these people who've picked the word of the year and the theme
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  of the year and have set all their goals and their calendar is set up and you're
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  like, oh, here I am again,
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  do not despair because we have time for that and that's okay.
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  These three tips are going to resolve a lot of that anxiousness.
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  All right, step one, I do not want you to set a New Year's resolution that starts
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  with the words, every day I will, or five times a week I will,
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  or, you know, those things.
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  Types of resolutions that set us up for disaster, usually very quickly.
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  Take heart in knowing you're not alone. Something like 90% of all people have
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  broken their New Year's resolution by the middle of January, and that's okay.
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  We are not going to set that type of New Year's resolution.
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  Instead, I want you to consider creating a 26 and 26 list or a this month I
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  will do this and next month I will do that.
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  Something that narrows down the scope of what you're trying to accomplish.
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  The 26 for 2026, I personally found out about from Gretchen Rubin,
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  who is the podcast host along with her sister on a podcast called Happier.
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  If you want to check them out, they have just dropped that whole series of how
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  they picked their word of the year and their challenge for the year and their 26 for 26 list,
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  which are a series of finite things that you can set yourself up to accomplish.
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  The reason I love lists like that is it allows our brains who need a sense of
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  urgency to not feel like we failed when we miss a mark.
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  We could do all 26 things in December if we wanted to, but allows us to sort
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  of focus on what would we like to accomplish.
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  So if you're curious about that, tap into that Happier podcast.
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  If you are wanting to have me talk you through it, that is something I'm going to do in the new year.
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  So follow me, stay tuned with me, and we'll jump into that in the new year.
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  So in the meantime, what can you do if you're itching to start now is start brainstorming.
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  What are some finite things you wish you could do?
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  Create some categories for yourself, things around the home,
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  things with your health, things with your kids, whatever the case may be.
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  Start brainstorming so that when we're ready to talk about it next week,
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  you already have some ideas in mind. All right.
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  Step two, I want you to allow yourself a runway.
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  This knee-jerk reaction that we can get that says, oh, the new year is tomorrow
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  and I've got to start tomorrow, but you didn't do anything to set yourself up
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  is a recipe for disaster.
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  It's you trying to take off on a new year with a new plan and new excitement,
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  but you didn't build the runway. So we are going to take on the Joy Loving Home
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  podcast the first week in January to build our runway.
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  So I want you to cool your jets and just say, I'm okay.
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  I can enjoy New Year's Eve with my family. I can go watch the last Stranger Things episode.
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  I can eat the rest of the goodies in the house.
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  I can do all the whatever it is in peace and relax about the holiday,
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  both New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, if all it is is football and fun dips,
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  whatever the case is, you do not have to start on January 1st.
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  You are going to have the mentality of, I'm going to allow myself a runway to get into any change.
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  And we're going to talk about how we start to add friction to the things we
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  want to stop and how we're going to make smooth sailing for the things we want to start.
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  But we're going to give ourselves that first whole week in January to set our runway up.
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  So if That gives you a chance to take a breath and go, huh, okay,
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  it's okay. I can come up with ideas, but I don't have to have the pressure to start tomorrow.
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  Go for it. I love that we're going to give ourselves a runway.
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  All right. And then step three, because I'm keeping this short and sweet so
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  you can go enjoy your life.
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  Step three is we are going to eliminate our all or nothing thinking,
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  which is really strong in our ADHD brains, because we are going to set ourselves
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  up knowing that this is the year of experiments.
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  If you want to make that your word of the year, this is the year of experiments and data collection.
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  We don't have to beat ourselves up with data.
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  Knowledge is power and knowing more about ourselves is really powerful.
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  So what we're going to do when we set up our runway is we're going to create
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  experiments that we're going to try, whether it's a week at a time, a month at a time.
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  We're going to collect that data and see what we can do to improve things about our life.
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  What's making us stumble? What's encouraging us to be successful?
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  What was successful and then all of a sudden we
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  stopped doing it and we don't understand why those are
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  what next year is going to be about and so
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  this year of experiments of data
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  collection if that sounds interesting to you that is the kind of thing that
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  I always do in my membership I am tweaking how membership is going to work so
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  for those of you that have been in the membership I am actually freezing all
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  of the memberships you will not be pulled your ten dollars a month will not be pulled.
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  I am going to recreate how I'm doing it. January is going to be completely free.
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  And we're just going to start setting ourselves up. I'm going to go into my
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  free group. And you get to my free group by going to joyloving.org.
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  I said that wrong. You go to bit.ly slash joylovingahomecommunity.
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  And I'm going to go in there and we're going to set up some stuff this year
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  that then you can find out from there if you want to jump into the community how to do that.
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  And if you're already part of the community, I will be in there as well explaining
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  how we're going to change things for the new year.
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  So that sounded really jumble and unfocused because I'm still in holiday mode.
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  But I wanted to let you all know that this is happening.
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  I'm freezing all of the data or all of the membership collection.
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  I'm going to be in both groups talking about how we're going to do things differently
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  in the new year. And I want you to be able to be part of that,
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  to opt in or to opt out. And all of that is fine.
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  But if you want accountability, which is all the membership is about,
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  it's about how do we set up our experiments? How do we hold ourselves accountable?
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  Why am I always failing? How can I be encouraged? How can I make myself set
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  aside times to actually work on things?
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  How can I do this in a community of people who are just like me?
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  That's what the Joy Living Home membership is all about.
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  But I'm needing to freeze it for right now because I want to change the way I do it a little bit.
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  So anyway, all of that to say, step one was to not set yourself a resolution,
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  but to start thinking about a 26 for 26 list and knowing step two is out there,
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  which is to setting ourselves up a runway, which we can start that whole first week of January.
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  The goal right now is to go relax, enjoy New Year's Eve and New Year's Day with
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  your family and know that you have time for this.
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  And step three is we are going to eliminate that all or nothing by creating
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  a series of experiments and data collection where we're making things easier
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  for ourselves when we want to be successful and making things harder for ourselves
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  if there's things we want to stop doing. All right.
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  I think that's it. I'm going to stop there and schedule this to go out tomorrow
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  because I'm recording this actually on December 30th so that I can go and relax
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  with my family on the 31st and the 1st.
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  But in the meantime, if you want to make sure you're going to be part of this,
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  go over to that bit.ly slash joylovinghomecommunity.
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  I'll put the link in the show notes.
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  If you want to reach out to me in the meantime, go to joy at joylovinghome.com.
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  That's how you can email me.
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  And yeah, I hope that you can join me so that we can set ourselves up for the
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  most success we've had yet in 2026.
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  Until then, continue to choose joy.