203 Understanding Executive Functions - Self-Motivation

I Have ADHD Podcast

Kristen Carder

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

I’m so relieved to be wrapping up the last episode in the executive function series. This episode focuses on self-motivation, which is quite funny seeing as how I have felt very little of it to get this series done.

The timing of this episode couldn’t be more perfect, however, because we are in the last few weeks before taxes are due! Many of you adults with ADHD may be especially struggling with the motivation to beat that deadline, and I’m here to explain why.

It all comes down to our lack of dopamine, but that doesn’t mean we are lazy or a lost cause for productivity. A customized cocktail of support can help us improve in this impaired executive function.

I provide several tips in the episode for improving motivation through determination. Three of these include:

Talking to your doctor about medically increasing your dopamine
Setting up rewards systems for yourself
Joining a coaching program, like FOCUSED

Listen to this episode, and please share with a friend who could also benefit!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the I-H have ADHD podcast where it's all about education, encouragement and
0:11.1	coaching for adults with ADHD.
0:14.0	I'm your host Kristen Carter and I have ADHD.
0:18.0	Let's chat about the frustrations, humor, and challenges of adulting, relationships, working, and achieving with this neurodevelopmental disorder.
0:27.0	I'll help you understand your unique brain, unlock your potential, and move from point A to point B.
0:34.0	Hey what's up, this is Kristen Carter and you're listening to the I have
0:41.1	it HD podcast. I am medicated, I am caffeinated and I am ready to roll.
0:46.5	Hello hello hello I'm back at you today with the final executive functioning episode.
0:53.7	Hallelujah, let us pop a bottle of champagne, throw a freaking party because I am
0:59.3	so, so relieved that this series is over. No offense, but I hated every second of it.
1:06.7	I'm so glad that it is almost over if you didn't catch the episode titled what to do when your goal is not exciting
1:16.7	you can hear the process that I went through at the beginning stages of planning out
1:21.8	this series and it is so adorable that I
1:26.1	thought that this was going to be quick and easy and fun and I would just be able to
1:29.2	get these done in like you know a couple hours and it's just real cute. That really shows a couple things,
1:36.8	lack of self-awareness, which is a deficient executive functioning, lack of problem solving
1:41.9	skills, deficient executive functioning. I I mean it's just so obvious how my own
1:46.8	executive functioning deficiencies like played into this but here's what I know.
1:54.2	When you decide that you want to do something
1:57.5	and you are values driven,
2:00.4	like you know exactly why you're doing it
2:02.4	and why you want to do it and then you
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