221 Understanding Your Capacity
I Have ADHD Podcast
Kristen Carder
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Everything and everyone has a limited capacity.
The world may try to tell us how much we should be able to handle and accomplish throughout the day. But, friend, no one can determine that except you.
If you are more concerned about maintaining your phone’s battery charge than your own, it’s time to focus on accepting the limits of your capacity.
If you want to avoid burnout and feel a sense of balanced accomplishment everyday, you won’t get there by pushing yourself to do more.
In this week’s episode, I share how under-parenting could have caused those of us with ADHD to ignore our limitations. You’ll learn about the chronic pain “spoon theory” and how to know where to draw the line for yourself.
Your capacity level is as unique as your fingerprint, and the sooner we can learn about it, the sooner we can manage our own expectations and channel our limited energy to where it’s needed the most.
If you’re a member of my group coaching program FOCUSED and are feeling drawn to become a coach like me to help others, check out and apply to my FOCUSED ADHD Coach Certification training.
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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 are listening to the I have |
| 0:41.6 | it-H-D podcast. I'm medicated, I am caffeinated, I'm regulated |
| 0:46.5 | ish and I'm ready to roll. Ready to roll. When I say regulated ish, I mean I've been trying to talk myself into recording this |
| 0:56.0 | podcast for hours, hours upon hours. Why is it so hard to sit down and do the thing that you want to do? Why? Why is it so hard to make |
| 1:10.1 | yourself do the thing that you know you want to do. |
| 1:14.7 | My goodness, my goodness, so I'm just sitting |
| 1:19.5 | with all of that discomfort. |
| 1:21.8 | I'm really trying to breathe through it but here I am I'm |
| 1:24.3 | actually speaking into a microphone right now which is the biggest win ever like |
| 1:30.9 | to actually be here to actually be recording big win for Kristen Carter. |
| 1:36.8 | So reminder that the things that you want to do are going to feel terrible as you do them. I don't know why. I wish it were different. I wish |
| 1:46.3 | that were not the case, but it is just going to feel terrible. But here we are. |
| 1:54.0 | Do you know what feels good, knowing that I'm able to help people? |
| 1:58.0 | Do you know what feels good? |
| 2:00.0 | Having a body of work of 220 plus podcast episodes. Do you know it feels good? |
| 2:06.8 | Having four and a half years of persistently putting out podcast that all feels really good but when Wednesday rolls around and it's |
| 2:17.1 | time for me to record it don't feel so good that's the part that's the part that's doesn't feel good. |
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