49 | Practice Makes Precious

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Eric Tivers, LCSW, ADHD-CCSP

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4.7 • 919 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2015

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Raising her son while pursuing her passion in college, guest Precious Mackey talks of challenges and tribulations she has dealt with over her life, as well as her path to finding a solution though understanding her ADHD. Until she was diagnosed not long ago, and despite having exemplary grades throughout most of school, Precious' sporadic study practices and workload between school and life had become too much to handle. Listen as Precious walks through various points in her life where ADHD played a part, providing motivation and inspiration for others along the way. Go to for the full show notes and links mentioned in this episode. If you're interested in being a part of the next ADHD reWired Accountability Group, please visit For a free audio-book download from our sponsor Audible.com, please visit Visit for information on improving the lives of people affected by ADHD.

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0:00.0	And no matter what I did, I would still find myself the night before trying to cram it in and it just was not working and similar to all the other years that I've been in school where I do really, really well in the beginning. I have my planner, I'm all organized, my divider, and then halfway through my dividers mean nothing anymore because I have something for every subject and every all through my finder.
0:23.4	It was so much stress.
0:25.0	And then in the meantime, you know, I have to feed my kid and keep him alive.
0:28.4	But then I had all this stuff to do and I would just be doing nothing. I would take a nap or on Facebook for a ridiculous amount of time and the way I practiced was I would go in and okay I practice. I should make dinner. I start water boiling,
0:45.9	and I remember I had to do something, I see mail I have to do, and then the water's boiling over,
0:50.8	and I go, oh my gosh, I'm still practicing.
0:52.8	And that was how I practice.
0:54.7	80HD rewired episode number 49.
1:01.8	This is the show designed to help those of us who have really good
1:05.9	intentions and is slightly wandering attention. My name is Eric Tivers. I'm a
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1:51.1	Hello and welcome back to another episode of ADHD, rewired, this is episode 49. Next week is episode 50.
2:05.0	That feels like a huge milestone and I'm so excited that next week for episode 50,
2:12.0	the goal is we're going to have a little party and it's
2:17.2	going to be an online party using a platform called Zoom where me and 24, hopefully up to 24 of you are going to be able to join me for about an hour and we're going to have a conversation and we're going to kind of see how that goes.
2:34.4	So that is hopefully going to be what you're going to hear next week.
2:38.9	I'm just so excited and we talk about the success of doing something consistently 50 episodes of a
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