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

ADHD podcast episode number 146. I am

medicated I am caffeinated and I'm ready to roll. What is up? How are you? How are you? How are you? I'm doing great. Thank you so much for asking.

I just went down a major distraction rabbit hole in preparation to switch into flow for this podcast.

It was a biggie and I used to beat myself up and shame myself and judge myself

for buffering and getting distracted and like doing all of the getting ready tasks

before I sit down to do the hard thing, you know. But now I just totally see this as part of my process.

Like yeah, it takes me four hours to do this it takes me two

hours to get ready by chasing all the squirrels and doing all the distraction tasks and

then it takes me two hours to actually complete the task, right?

So four hours total and that's okay. It's 100% okay. So I don't sit here and tell myself

if you would just stay focused you could get this done so much faster You should be able to get this done so much faster. No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no

No I never talked myself that way because I like me. And I hope you like you. And I hope that

you don't talk to yourself like that either. So now I just watch myself, be distracted. I'm like, okay, honey, what do you need? What do you need so that you can get ready to write?

So instead of telling myself, well, it only takes me two hours to do my podcast because that's how much active time it takes.

I tell myself it takes me four hours. It takes me two hours to get ready and two hours to do it.

And that's okay. Four hours, five hours a week, no biggie. Not a big deal.

So anyway, here I am. I followed all the threads, all the rabbit trails, there's

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