How to Maintain Positive Habits—Especially When You’re Feeling Good!

You’ve worked hard to get where you are. Your symptoms are under control, you’re keeping a regular schedule, the work/life balance feels just right, and anxiety is at a manageable level.

So what could be harder than getting to this point? Staying there! For many people (myself included), it’s when we’re feeling best about our adult ADHD that we begin to slack on the things that got us to that good point in the first place.

That’s why it’s so important to stay vigilant, especially when you’re feeling great! Enduring habits come from consistently practicing during good times and bad—not just when you feel you need it.

Here are some positive practices and strategies to keep up with what’s working for you when you’re feeling good.

Don’t Get Discouraged

Missing one day, two days, or even a week of meditation or whatever ritual keeps your symptoms under control isn’t a death sentence for your routine. Don’t get discouraged because you missed a day. It’s not the short term but the long-term goal of keeping at it that will help you maintain a lifestyle you enjoy.

Find Your Own Way to Self-Motivate

Motivation is the hardest part of staying on top of good habits that keep our symptoms in check. But as adults who are in control of our ADHD symptoms, we are perfectly poised to come up with creative ways to keep ourselves motivated.

Foster that energy to create a system for yourself, whether your solution ends up being something visual, a helpful technology, or support from an accountability partner. Whatever it is, it should be work for you and your style.

Don’t always assume that what’s effective for others will work for you, and don’t think just because the classic methods don’t work that you’re incapable of maintaining good habits. You’re more than capable!

Acknowledge Your Victories

The best way to keep up with the good habits is by acknowledging that they’re working. Send yourself positive messages, make notes, and acknowledge that it is your hard work that has gotten you to this point. This will also help you reassess what has been a positive force in combatting your symptoms—and what hasn’t.

A few occasions of speaking to yourself negatively can undermine so much hard work, so be careful what you say. Remind yourself that the life you have with or without control of your symptoms is one worth working for—and you’re not alone.

This post is for people who have found some great habits that work for them, whether that be meditation, medication, therapy, or all of the above. In some ways, keeping habits is harder than forming them in the first place.

But a burst of inspiration is a lot less powerful than a long-term plan that you stick to. The feeling of success you’ll have when you keep up with the good habits that counteract your symptoms will be well worth the struggle.

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