New Year Goals for Neurodivergent Families Made EASY

January 01, 2025

🌟 Start the New Year with a plan that works for neurodivergent families! In this episode, we dive into neurodivergent-friendly strategies for creating meaningful New Year goals. Forget the pressure of traditional resolutions—explore how the Word of the Year and the Three W’s: Want, Wish, Win can inspire growth, connection, and achievement in your family.

As a neurodivergent parent, I understand the unique challenges of navigating family dynamics, executive functioning struggles, and goal-setting. This episode offers actionable insights tailored to your needs.

Here’s what you’ll learn:
How to pick a guiding word to support neurodivergent strengths and challenges.
Creative ways to foster connection with neurodivergent kids through meaningful goal-setting.
Why the "Three W’s" framework is perfect for neurodivergent minds and how to implement it with ease.

✨ Whether you're working on personal growth, supporting your kids, or fostering family connections, this episode is packed with tools designed for neurodivergent individuals and families.

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💬 What’s your Word of the Year? Comment below and share how you plan to use the Three W’s in your neurodivergent family! Don’t forget to subscribe and share this episode with others in the neurodivergent community.

Key Takeaways:
The Power of a Word: Pick a Word of the Year to guide your neurodivergent family’s focus and growth.
Three W’s Framework: Tailor goals to neurodivergent strengths with Want, Wish, and Win.
Accessible Goal-Setting: Use visual tools like whiteboards and sticky notes to make goals easier to track.
Foster Connection: Build family bonds through reflection, support, and encouragement.
Celebrate Progress: Shift the focus from perfection to celebrating neurodivergent wins.

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Timestamps:
00:00 – Welcome and New Year Reflections for Neurodivergent Families
00:14 – Choosing a Word of the Year for Neurodivergent Growth
01:11 – Reflecting on Last Year’s Word and Lessons Learned
02:38 – Introducing the Three W’s Framework for Neurodivergent Kids
05:03 – How to Implement the Three W’s with Visual Tools
06:56 – Conclusion: Encouragement for Neurodivergent Parents and Kids

📌 KeyTopics Covered: neurodivergent families, ADHD-friendly strategies, New Year goals, word of the year, executive functioning, Three W’s framework, goal-setting for neurodivergent kids, family connection, growth mindset, parenting neurodivergent children

Episode Transcript

[00:00:00] Welcome to the Neurotribe, the podcast where authenticity meets empowerment. Your host, Teresa, is a certified business executive and life coach navigating the intricate tapestry of neurodiversity. She's someone blessed with ADHD and dyslexia and gifted a widow and a mother to four incredible neurodiverse children.

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Hey, friends. Welcome back. We are heading into the new year. A lot of you are working on goals, maybe you have some New Year's resolutions. I think it's wonderful. I love it. I personally really enjoy picking a word for the year, because honestly, for me, having ADHD, Picking a New Year's resolution or resolutions is hard because I can't tell you how many times I have not been able to stick with the resolution and then I end up beating myself up and really using it against myself rather than for myself.

the whole [00:02:00] point for a New Year's resolution is to help yourself. So for me, I like to pick a word for the year. So if you were to pick a word for the year, what would it be for you? What is it that you would like to focus on for yourself for the year? My word last year was "spring" for me a lot of it was new beginnings new thoughts, new ideas in my business, new ways to think about parenting, being a single parent.

My kids are in very different age ranges now and maturity levels. So everything to me last year very much felt new. And I sometimes have a hard time with things that are [00:03:00] new or transitions, but having the word spring made me think of flowers blooming, new foliage new beginnings. it felt more to me

like it was a year of growth in all different aspects. for me last year, it very much helped me, I think sprout new ideas and so many different facets of my life. And so it was definitely, A descriptive, but then also an action.

I hope that you can spend some time being quiet and maybe decide for you instead of picking a New Year's resolution, decide on a word that you would like to focus on this year. I am going to talk about the New Year's resolution. You guys know I've been on this [00:04:00] parenting and family kick, so I want to talk about it in a different way.

We quite often think about coming into the new year and thinking about, ourselves and what we want to do for ourselves or what we want to change for ourself or what our goals are. And I really like to Talk about having some time with your kid or kids and spending some time with them and finding out what they want for this new incoming year.

Is there something they want to work on? Is there something they want to do or achieve this year?

I like to give my kids three W's to start the year off with want, wish, win. A [00:05:00] want is I want to go on vacation to Disneyland this year or I want to be able to join ski school this year. A wish is a self reflect. A wish is, last year, I did X, Y, Z.

I wish I did this instead. So, It teaches them a little bit of self accountability, right?Last year

I argued with my brother a lot and what I wish to do this year is play with my brother more often. a win is something that they want to work towards to be able to celebrate. I want to get a 3. 0. When I get a 3. 0, I will [00:06:00] feel so good and proud about myself or, I want to learn to ride a bike.

To me, that will really feel like I have reached the big kid status, right? So

coming into the new year and really spending some time with the kids, whether you do it in a family meeting or you do it one on one individually, but talking with your kids about maybe something that they want to do.

During the year, giving them the space and ability to reflect, self reflect on the past year and give them not the time to feel guilty or feel shame about, but moreover, this is some things that I did last year that I would like to change or Take care. I recognize this [00:07:00] and I would like to do this instead, but give them some time to self reflect and then also give them the ability to have something to look forward to.

Not only the want, but something that they can work towards a goal that they can work towards and feel really good about. And then you can write it on a whiteboard. You can write it on the kitchen refrigerator. You can put sticky notes in their room or on the mirror in the bathroom. However you want to do it to help Remind them and also give you the ability to remember to encourage them to help them reach the things, the goals that they want to achieve in the year to give you and [00:08:00] your child.

The connection to be invested in helping them succeed within the year to come. So I hope this is a new twist that you will enjoy spending some time with your family and bring in your three W's into your house. I love you all. Take care. Bye bye.

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