Welcome to the I have ADHD podcast where it's all about education, encouragement and

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.

I'll help you understand your unique brain, unlock your potential, and move from point A to point B.

Hey what's up?

This is Kristen Carter and you're listening to the I have ADHD podcast episode number 184. I am medicated. I am caffeinated and I am so ready to roll. How are you? It is great to be here with you today. I'm so glad you decided to press play on this podcast. I know you've got a lot to do. I've know you've got like so much going on in your life and I love that we get to spend some time together today. So thanks for joining me. This podcast is going to be lighthearted and fun and pretty much a stream of consciousness, chit-chat from me to you. I don't have it all written out. I'm not scripted today. I'll be going off book quite a bit, but I have a lot on my mind that I want to share with you the main thing

being we need to have a convo about hobbies it keeps coming up in focused which is my ADHD coaching membership that hobbies are so

difficult for adults with ADHD and I just coach somebody on it yesterday and then

additionally I have been feeling the tension in my own life as my kids have been getting busier and needing less of me in the evenings when I'm home from work. I've been feeling like kind of bored, which is so interesting. And so I've been exploring this topic of hobbies for my own life and what that might look like.

And so I just wanted to share all of that with you today.

If I sound different or not as good as usual,

it's because I left my proper podcasting mic at home.

And I just could not, I could not go through

another transition today, like gather up all my stuff, go home, record at home, record at home in my son's closet, or even just like come back here into the office. I just couldn't like the thought of another transition. I was like, I can't do it. So we are just putting out a little bit of

B minus work right now and I'm using my Brittany Spears mic which is what I use for my focused

coaching calls. So hopefully it is not terrible sounding.

But I want to let you know that for me today,

just getting it done was the most important priority and

making sure that I get the content to you was the most important priority and I just

want to invite you to think through the things in your life.

They don't always have to be perfect.

Sometimes just getting it done imperfectly

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