Reply To: Annual review and planning the year ahead, 2012 A year in the zoo

[MarieAngell]

How was my year, indeed? One thing I learned right  at the end of 2012 is that I should keep a bit of a record of what I’m doing so that I can recall what I’ve done in the past year.

This was a year of some good progress for me and my family, especially in regard to figuring out some of the finer points of ADHD and acquiring some better coping strategies. More work to be done, but still, all in all, progress!

Some setbacks in that I was so busy trying to figure out the finer points of ADHD and acquire better coping skills and just the many details of life to many of the things I actually enjoy doing. But I came to the end of the year with a renewed sense of hope and focus (using the term “focus” in an ADD sort of way).

@Robbo, how long ago were you diagnosed with ADHD? I’m just over 2 years into a diagnosis and it’s no joke about it being a process. A year ago, I think I would have said I was no better, maybe even worse off, in evaluating the year. I was very discouraged that I hadn’t managed my life better and I was having a lot of frustrations with healthcare providers for my kid and a lot of extraneous family troubles that had to be dealt with.

In the High Five section, you sounded like you were proud of some things. In my limited experience, those successes build.  OMG, am I really saying, “Success breeds success”? So sorry, but some cliches are true.

I’ve really learned in this past year there will be slipups too, but the slipups don’t usually eat at me the way they once did, because I’ve proven to myself I can get back on track.

So, yeah, maybe you haven’t made much progress (although I bet you’ve made more than you think), but now you know where you stand.

The question is: Where do we go from here? What’s the next thing we want to conquer?

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