Hey, what's up? This is Kristen Carter and you are listening to a bite-sized episode of the I Have

ADHD podcast. I am medicated, caffeinated, regulated, and ready to roll. This little episode is one of my

favorite clips from the podcast. It's perfect if you're not in the mood for a full hour-long listen.

Because let's be real, some of us ADHD just don't have the patience for all of that.

But if you are a die-hard listener, think of this as your mid-week pick me up.

It's Thursday, y'all.

Friday is right around the corner.

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episode. And remember, my friend, drink your water, take your meds, grab a snack. Now let's get

rolling. And that part of it is then you need to kind of generate the motivation to do it, right?

Which kind of brings me to this idea, which is I've had plenty of clients give me some

version of, yeah, alarm doesn't really work for me.

You know, like I set the alarm, but then I just turn it off and I don't do the thing.

And it took me a while to catch on to this, but then I sort of realized I'm like, you know what,

actually the alarm worked perfectly. The job of the alarm is to tell you, hey, it's that time.

That's it. The alarm makes you aware, right? Increases awareness.

It doesn't increase motivation, right? The alarm doesn't sort of, I don't know, it doesn't

pull out a gun and it doesn't give you a cookie, right? It's not about now that the alarm went

off, boy, am I psych to look up summer camps, right? All it is meant to do is to generate awareness,

the generating motivation. That's still on you in that moment, right?

Love. So, again, medication's helpful. Not being exhausted is helpful. Not being completely

overwhelmed by every single thing in your life is helpful.

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