Process Over Results: Hacking Your Consistency

Process Over Results: Hacking Your Consistency

From Hacking Your ADHD by William Curb

May 1, 2026 · 14 min · Episode 291

About this episode

This episode discusses the importance of planning and how to overcome the execution gap in achieving consistency.

Hey Team! I've been thinking a lot about the idea that thinking about planning isn't the same thing as planning. When we're just thinking about planning, sure, we're imagining the steps, the obstacles, the finished results, but we often get stuck in the execution gap, where we think we know exactly what we need to do, but can't actually find a way of getting ourselves to do it. We often view planning as this rigid, formal structure, a grand design that has to be perfect or it's not worth doing. But really, planning is just a gift for our future selves. It's about making decisions now so that the "future us," who is more than likely tired and overwhelmed, doesn't have to. So today, we're going to look at the mechanics of how we build those plans. We'll talk about the hierarchy of goals, strategies, and tactics, and how we can stop letting the "shoulds" dictate how we spend our limited cognitive energy. If you'd life to follow along on the show notes page you can find that at HackingYourADHD.com/284 YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/y835cnrk Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/HackingYourADHD This Episode's Top Tips That the "feel-good" sensation of visualizing a plan can actually be a…

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Host: William Curb

Topics covered

  • planning
  • consistency
  • motivation
  • cognitive energy
  • goal setting

Keywords

  • planning
  • execution gap
  • motivation
  • dopamine
  • goals
  • strategies
  • tactics

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