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coaching for adults with ADHD. I'm your host Kristen Carter and I have ADHD. Let's chat about the frustrations, humor, and challenges of adulting, relationships, working, and achieving with this neurodevelopmental disorder.

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Hey what's up, this is Kristen Carter and you're listening to the I have

ADHD podcast episode number 113. I am

medicated I am caffeinated and I am ready to roll. What is up y'all are you ready ready to rumble? Are you ready to go because buckle up? I am in.

I have 19 minutes to get this done. Oh my gosh. It's so ironic that we're talking about

time today. It's so ironic. We are talking about wasting time and I'm really pumped to share my thoughts with you because I think they're going to be extremely helpful because how often do you believe that you've wasted time?

Or how often do you label a project or a task as a waste of time?

This is something that I used to do constantly. I would judge myself and experience

so much shame because I truly believed that I wasted a ton of time. I identified as a time waster and I would punish myself

for it. So I'd be like well now you have to stay up until 1 a.m. because you wasted your time today.

Or now you don't get to do that fun thing because you wasted too much time.

Or now you have to rush like a maniac because you wasted your time. It was so uncomfortable and I just thought that like these are just the facts. This is just my life. This is just where we're at.

In addition to judging myself, I would also judge certain things in my life as a waste of time,

like normal, daily things, things that all humans do like I don't understand why I did this but I

would label them as a waste of time so for example like sitting at a stoplight

no too much of a waste sitting at a stoplight. No.

Too much of a waste of time for me.

I would try to like find a detour, an alternate route.

If there was a stoplight, I was like,

I can't handle sitting here. I have to find a different route,

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