My Favorite Micro Habit: Make It visual
As someone with ADHD, I’ve often struggled with keeping my focus on a long-term vision, especially when mastering the day or week feels like the real win.
Real estate agents, with or without the additional challenge of ADHD, face the same struggles. The job constantly pulls you in multiple directions, so when it comes to planning epic success for the coming year, you might already feel a sense of defeat.
Here are a few ways I’ve made my “North Star” and intermediate goals visual to hold myself accountable and maintain focus and excitement.
Tracking Tools
Let’s start with the obvious: tracking tools. This could be a spreadsheet or habit tracker dedicated to the activities you want to track and the specific dates on which you completed them.
Pro Tip: Digital tools are shareable and make it easy to run reports, but printing out your tracking tool and posting it front and center in your office, kitchen, or bathroom mirror makes it far more likely that you’ll stick to your plan.
The Accountability Mirror
In his book Can’t Hurt Me, David Goggins talks about the concept of the accountability mirror where instead of focusing on massive goals or overwhelming timelines, he breaks success down to the smallest possible unit: the next controllable action.
Goggins believes most people wake up already defeated, hitting snooze and starting the day behind. His antidote is to “win the war in the morning” by building mental armor before life starts throwing punches. The accountability mirror is where you track (on sticky notes) the real work—what you did today, what you didn’t do, and what’s yours to own. The goal isn’t to reach a finish line and collapse into happiness; it’s to enjoy the small victories along the way and continually define your “new 100%”.
The Vision Board
There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who love vision boards, and those who hate them.
Jokes aside, vision boards have a very powerful role when it comes to reaching goals with a longer time horizon:
A daily anchor: Vision boards provide a physical or visual reminder of what you’re working toward.
A motivation amplifier: Seeing the future-self version of life (the home, the travel, the business, the lifestyle) gives you an emotional connection to the goal that gets stronger over time.
A clarity tool: visuals give you direction when you get overwhelmed by abstract goals.
A ritual: For many, creating a vision board is a reset moment that feels grounding and hopeful.
My current phone background
Phone Backgrounds
The average person picks up their phone 50–200 times per day, depending on the person and context. With that much repeat exposure, your phone background can be a powerful focusing tool throughout the day.
Take a photo of your vision board or select an image that reminds you of your big “why”.
My current phone background is representative of the idea of having a “seat at the table”. This image is not just calming and visually stimulating, it represents a deeply held vision of belonging in a community of successful leaders.
Staying connected to your long-term vision isn’t about sheer willpower—it’s about designing an environment that constantly brings you back to what matters.
No matter how you choose to keep your vision front and center, these simple visual cues serve as daily reminders of who you’re becoming and why the journey is worth it. And that’s where real, sustainable success starts.
