24 ADHD and Motivation: Why we don't have it and how we can get it
I Have ADHD Podcast
Kristen Carder
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Raise your hand if you struggle with motivation! This episode explains why we struggle and some ways to combat it.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the I have ADHD podcast where it's all about education, encouragement and |
| 0:11.1 | coaching for adults with ADHD. I'm your host Kristen Carter and I have ADHD. |
| 0:17.0 | Let's chat about the frustrations, humor, and challenges of adulting, relationships, working, and achieving with this neurodevelopmental disorder. |
| 0:26.0 | I'll help you understand your unique brain, unlock your potential, and move from point A to point B. |
| 0:33.0 | Hey what's up? |
| 0:35.0 | Hey what's up? |
| 0:40.0 | You are listening to the I have ADHD podcast episode number 24 |
| 0:47.2 | today we are going to talk all about motivation which I know is a huge issue for us, all of us, if you do not struggle |
| 1:01.2 | with motivation, then you do not have ADHD |
| 1:04.0 | ADHD. That just is what it is. You can't be motivated to do |
| 1:10.0 | everything and also have ADHD. |
| 1:15.0 | So one of the key defining factors of someone who has ADHD is someone who knows the |
| 1:21.2 | right thing to do but just cannot seem to motivate themselves to do that right thing. |
| 1:27.1 | So you are in good company. |
| 1:29.6 | We are going to talk all about it today. We're going to cry, we're going to laugh, we're going to hug, we're going to be okay. |
| 1:38.0 | Together I am having an awesome day today. |
| 1:44.0 | I'm so excited to be here. |
| 1:46.0 | I just read a quote that said, |
| 1:50.0 | what an amazing experience it is even just to exist and that's kind of like the place |
| 1:56.2 | where I am at this very moment and I know that life is a roller coaster and it's not |
| 2:02.1 | always great but I am just really enjoying life today. |
| 2:07.6 | It is my first born son's birthday and he made me a mama. So that's a really fun thing. He is such a lovely |
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