Often time clients–especially younger clients–struggle with getting themselves up for networking or just getting motivated to do the tasks involved in a job search that aren’t particularly fun.

The latter can be especially challenging if you have ADHD (speaking from personal experience) where your brain makes it even harder for you to make yourself do things you don’t like than a neurotypical person’s.

This is where Power Ups come to save the day (most of the time).

I first learned about Power Ups in  Dr. Jane McGonigal’s fantastic book SuperBetter.

In it, she shares her story of having a severe concussion which required her to stay in a dark room w/o any screens for week after week.

She developed sever concussion-induced depression and nothing the doctors were suggesting was working.

She decided to join forces with her twin Dr. Kelly McGonigal, who is famous in the positive psychology field.

Jane ended up coming up with a game using video game psychology principles called Jane the Concussion Slayer, and from there, created the Super Better game to help people deal with various mental health challenges, break bad habits and create healthy habits.

The principle that made the biggest impression on me was the concept of Power Ups, which…if you play video games, you’re very familiar with.

If don’t play video games, I imagine you can figure out what a Power Up does.

In the video below, I share with you more about this practice, how it affects the nervous system and how to identify your own Power Ups.