Why 2026 Bingo is Perfect for ADHD Brains

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Why 2026 Bingo is Perfect for ADHD Brains

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How does bingo help an ADHD brain towards a fulfilling year? I'm glad you asked! In today's video I talk about how 2026 bingo can help us combat negativity bias... and provide some things to consider when making your own bingo card! Get your bingo card here!: https://how-to-adhd.kit.com/bingo 📝 CITATIONS Arguinchona, J. H., & Tadi, P. (2023). Neuroanatomy, Reticular Activating System. In StatPearls. StatPearls Publishing. Emmons, R. A., & McCullough, M. E. (2003). Counting blessings versus burdens: an experimental investigation of gratitude and subjective well-being in daily life. Journal of personality and social psychology, 84(2), 377–389. https://doi.org/10.1037//0022-3514.84.2.377 Rozin, P., & Royzman, E. B. (2001). Negativity Bias, Negativity Dominance, and Contagion. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 5(4), 296-320. https://doi.org/10.1207/S15327957PSPR0504_2 🔗 OUR OTHER LINKS & SOCIALS Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/howtoadhd Buy my book!!: https://howtoadhdbook.com Get my weekly newsletter: https://how-to-adhd.kit.com/ Check out our website: https://howtoadhd.com Checkout our merch: http://shop.howtoadhd.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/howtoadhd TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@howtoadhd Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/howtoadhd/ Facebook: http://facebook.com/howtoadhd 📚CHAPTERS 00:00 Let's play a game 00:16 2026 Bingo & How it Works 01:06 Why 2026 Bingo is good for ADHD Brains 03:00 Ten year celebratory interlude!!! 03:35 What are the rules? 04:18 What are some traps to avoid? 05:51 Thank you!!! ⁉️ WAIT IS JESSICA A LICENSED PROFESSIONAL? Jessica McCabe is not a licensed mental health provider, but information presented on How to ADHD is reviewed by researchers and approved by licensed clinical psychologist Patrick LaCount, PhD (https://practicalpsychservices.com). While information presented on How to ADHD has historically been built in consultation with researchers and licensed providers, videos posted prior to April 2023 were not subjected to the same formal approval process required by the YouTube Health program. For more information on the YouTube Health program and verification of health-related content, please visit: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9795167 Need translation? Learn how to turn on auto-translated captions here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15iLAHI7FPdum964u3n8_RsUb0QTEXc66p-RhTmvjpb8/edit?usp=sharing

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Let's play a game

Hello brains! Happy new year! Want this year to be better than last year? Same. So... Let's play a game.

2026 Bingo & How it Works

This is 2026 bingo, and it's the reason I am wearing a Sherlock Holmes-ish outfit, which will make sense later. In fact, it will be elementary. 2026 bingo, or insert-whatever-year-it-is-here bingo is where you make a literal bingo card and fill it out with things you want to experience, achieve, or try that year. You mark squares off as they happen and at the end of the year you see if you got bingo meaning five in a row up, down, or diagonally. Middle square is free. Though you could try to hit all 25 if you want to play blackout bingo. I am not playing blackout bingo. Well -- No. Let's see how regular bingo goes. My team heard about this from a community member in our Discord who played 2025 bingo. And we thought it was such a cool idea, we decided to try it immediately and even make our own template for it. Actually, templates. They're free. You can download them from the description below.

Why 2026 Bingo is good for ADHD Brains

What I love about this for people with ADHD is that it's novel. Novelty is one way to fill in the missing "motivational planks" for ourselves that can help us get stuff done that we would otherwise struggle to do. More on that in this video. Actually, there are a lot of motivational planks involved here. There's an element of challenge because you're probably putting some things on the card you haven't done before. Personal interest, because it's your bingo card. Ideally, you're only putting things on the card that you care about. And at least by the end of the year, it's urgent, cause once the year's over, time's up. It's a great way to motivate the ADHD brain. Also, it's flexible enough that it's worked for the most and least detail oriented people on our team. The most spontaneous, and the most "routines are life do not touch. " Not many systems can claim that. It can be done socially, too, which can help with some gentle accountability. Basically, you just hand a friend or two a blank bingo card and say, "Want to play 2026 bingo with me? Here you go. " I did that with my partner. Yes, my AuDHD partner, who does not like spontaneous activities thrust upon him, loved it. It's that good. And it's just fun. It's a game. Gamification tends to work for our brains. We don't like boring. Boring is boring. And boring is painful. Plus, for those of us who have difficulty focusing, the act of writing down our intentions for the year can be really important because it solidifies our intent to do these things. That alone can help our reticular activating system recognize opportunities to achieve them. And seeing all the cool stuff we did can help counter negativity bias. Wait, wouldn't writing down your intentions for the year in a different way also help your reticular activating system more readily recognize opportunities to achieve them and counter negativity? Yes, but this way is more fun. It also has the serious advantage of putting all of your goals on one page right in front of your face, which incidentally was what was so helpful about the One Page Miracle, which I talked about in the very first video on this channel 10 years ago.

Ten year celebratory interlude!!!

[Happy Birthday Music] This is exciting. So, I can check off that box. Celebrate 10 years of this channel. Check. Well on my way to bingo. Oh, there it is. That was good. I should finish this video? Alright.

What are the rules?

So, what are the rules? For flexibility sake, there are no definitive rules. Though it can help to decide on a couple of personal rules to help you narrow down what to put on your card and to help with motivation. For example, my rules were nothing routine-based. When I've done it, it's done. And only things I'm looking forward to, nothing I would dread, which I got from that community member. Thank you, Kira! I also tried to put a nice mix of stuff that costs money and stuff that's cheap or free so I could make progress on it even if I'm broke because childcare is expensive. Kira also had the rule of nothing that takes longer than a week to accomplish which I thought was really smart. But my partner and I decided to include a couple of longerterm goals in the mix, too. We'll see if we regret that. I'll keep you posted. While there are no rules other than the ones you create, here are some traps to maybe avoid.

What are some traps to avoid?

The comparison trap. It can be helpful to see what others have done as inspiration and there are versions of this all over the internet at this point. But yours doesn't have to look like someone else's. It just has to make sense for you. On that note, doing it performatively and including things you should want or things that will impress others instead of things that are meaningful to you. Don't do that. If you want to be able to share your accomplishments on social media, you can always share a few of them without sharing the whole card. Go ahead and write down that cringey thing you want to do. Do iiiit. Do it. Also, focusing on outcomes rather than actions or making your squares too vague. I actually did both of these at first when I wrote learn how to make a killer salad. What counts as a killer salad? What if I make a hundred salads and none of them are killer? I changed it to make five types of salads. Probably one of them will be good. Also, now I know when I'm done and can check it off. Finally, feeling like you have to finish. Sometimes priorities change and that's okay. Also, even not finishing any of them is good data we can use for next time. Speaking of, one of the coolest things about this is that even making the bingo card can be helpful. It can help you identify what sorts of things bring you a sense of purpose or joy. And not just the big sweeping goals, the little mundane things, too. So, even if you forget about your bingo card by next week, I encourage you to make one. It's fun. It's fairly fast, and it just might improve your year. I'm going to go host a murder mystery party. No, I'm not. I haven't even planned it yet, but I will. And I already got my costume, which is making this year more fun already. Come, Watson. Come. The game is afoot. Thank you to our Brain Advocates and all our Patreon brains for supporting goofy fun videos like this

Thank you!!!

that actually do a lot of good for this community. It's because of you that we get to play with props like these. Let us know what you think about making a 2026 bingo card in the comments below. Share something you added to yours. And if you found this video helpful, don't forget to like, subscribe, and click all the things. It helps our channel out a lot. You might know that already, but as Sherlock Holmes would say, there's nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. Happy New Year, brains, I'mma go celebrate a decade.

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