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ADHD reWired

167 | April Live Q&A

ADHD reWired

Eric Tivers, LCSW, ADHD-CCSP

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8937 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

This Week's Episode: This week, we bring you a recorded session of a live ADHD Q&A session. The recording you will hear on this episode is from the April session. Laura Curvin joins me to moderate this event. If you are listening to this episode the day it is published, Tuesday, May 9th, you can participate in the April ADHD Q&A session! It starts at 12:30pm Central. Go to EricTivers.com/events to register. In this episode, you will hear the questions that attendees submitted during this Q&A. We discuss morning routines and behaviors, procrastination, completing projects, and much more. Join one of our upcoming ADHD Q&A sessions to have your questions answered! You'll Learn: [07:36] - "Gurk" asks a question about the best morning routines or behaviors. I share some of my morning behaviors and stress the importance of enough sleep the night before. [10:37] - Amanda is struggling with goals, projects, and short-term tasks at work and in the home setting. I talk about the 20x5x5 challenge. [17:19] - Laura asks a follow-up question about signs that your strategies need to change and be updated. [21:40] - The next question is about procrastination. I explain the problem with procrastination is the task completion system. I also encourage the person to consider if they are in the right line of work. [26:10] - Alene asks about not being able to finish tasks. I explain that coming up with too many projects can the perfect recipe for having too much on your plate. Laura talks about deferring projects. [37:57] - Karen joins the call to share some things speech pathologists are missing with ADD. She talks about auditory association and asks for feedback from attendees. [46:52] - Missy asks a clarifying question. She wants further explanation of the term "association task." [47:42] - Kim asks how to get through "the final five" and finish projects. [57:47] - Kat asks how much CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) can impact ADHD and productivity. I explain that CBT can be very helpful when dealing with cognitive distortions. Contact Karen: K_Campbell@communitycounts.org Use my Audible.com affiliate link for your favorite titles: http://www.audibletrial.com/ADHDreWired ADHD reWired Coaching and Accountability Group Early registration for the 10th season of the ADHD reWired Coaching and Accountability Group is now open. Register early and get $400 off! Early registration interviews will be held on May 11th and 13th. Schedule your screening call at CoachingReWired.com Support the podcast on Patreon Patreon allows listeners like you to support content creators like me. With a monthly contribution, you can get access to different levels of perks. Learn more at http://patreon.com/adhdrewired Productivity Q&A Get your ADHD questions answered live! These Q&A sessions take place on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at 12:30pm. Go to http://erictivers.com/events. ADHD Women's Palooza If you missed the ADHD Women's Palooza, you can purchase all 36 sessions (including mine) for only $197! Check it out here: http://www.erictivers.com/palooza Want to be a guest? Hey! What about you? Do you have a story? Are you a Coach? Are you an ADHD Clinician? If you answered yes to any of these questions and you'd like to be a guest, schedule a pre-interview call here.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I have brilliant ideas for new projects every day.

0:03.6

Unfortunately I leave too many of these projects unfinished.

0:08.0

Sometimes getting started isn't so hard, right?

0:11.0

How can I decide better what is worth starting? Is there a way to know if I'll lose

0:16.3

interest in a couple of weeks? How many of you when you talk find yourself

0:21.2

skipping topics that are related to something that you're reminded from

0:25.8

and not that was not in the previous sentence.

0:28.2

AED, Rewired. 80-H.D. Rewired episode 167.

0:38.8

This is the show designed for those of us with really good intentions, but a slightly wandering attention.

0:46.3

My name is Eric Tivers. I'm a licensed clinical social worker, coach, and speaker.

0:51.8

The website is ADHD rewired.com. We know that starting is the hardest part, so let's get started. But first, let me tell you about this.

1:04.0

You only have two chances left to save $400 on ADHD rewired next session of coaching and accountability groups.

1:16.1

Registration interviews are on Thursday,

1:18.6

May 11th and Thursday, May 18. Registration interviews are by appointment only. Schedule yours at

1:27.3

coaching rewired.com. Because this time, it's your time.

1:35.0

So one of my big wins was I've always wanted to set up my

1:38.0

self-hosted website and I've told myself a couple of hundred negative messages about how I can't do it, even though I can do it, and I did it.

1:46.7

I'm really excited. I've been writing for 10 days in a row, so that's been a huge win, and it's only because of these groups inspiring me to do my best.

1:56.0

Increasing my time awareness without being stressed about time is such a big win for me.

2:01.0

I joined the group because I was diagnosed about 20 years ago.

2:05.4

I've been diagnosed about a year old and over that time I've learned a lot. I've tried medication.

2:11.8

I started medication and had some talk therapy but my pyrichist was not that

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