Life planning

Now I have the meds I need, I can calmly think through life planning as a positive activity.

To do this, I never use smart goals, they confuse me. Let alone the demands of the requirements they have!

So instead, I just do very informal notes:

Learn to drive

• autonomy
• need to concentrate
• need to not dissociate

I do this via different categories, e.g. bipolar and goals, ADHD and goals. Yours may vary, if you wish to give this a try.

Following that, I review some time later – probably quite some time later, as in years. I cross off the things that no longer matter, tick off progress, throw away things that have been completely solved. It gives me such a sense of achievement!