Welcome to the I Have ADHD podcast where it's all about education, encouragement and coaching

for adults with ADHD. I'm your host, Kristen Carter and I have ADHD. Let's chat about the

frustrations, humor and challenges of adulting relationships, working and achieving with

this neurodevelopmental disorder. I'll help you understand your unique brain, unlock your

potential and move from point A to point B. Hey, what's up? This is Kristen Carter and

you're listening to the I Have ADHD podcast episode number 146. I am medicated, I am

caffeinated and I'm ready to roll. What is up? How are you? How are you? How are you? I'm

doing great. Thank you so much for asking. I just went down a major distraction rabbit hole in

preparation to switch into flow for this podcast. Whoo, it was a biggie and I used to beat myself up

and shame myself and judge myself for buffering and getting distracted and like doing all of the

getting ready tasks before I sit down to do the hard thing. But now I just totally see this as part

of my process. It takes me four hours to do this. It takes me two hours to get ready by chasing all

the squirrels and doing all the distraction tasks and then it takes me two hours to actually complete

the task. So four hours total and that's okay. It's 100% okay. I don't sit here and tell myself

if you would just stay focused you could get this done so much faster. You should be able to get

this done so much faster. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I never

talked to myself that way because I like me and I hope you like you and I hope that you don't talk

to yourself like that either. So now I just watch myself be distracted and I'm like, okay honey,

what do you need? What do you need so that you can get ready to write? So instead of telling myself,

well it only takes me two hours to do my podcast because that's how much active time it takes.

It I tell myself it takes me four hours. It takes me two hours to get ready and two hours to do it

and that's okay. Four hours, five hours a week? No biggie. Not a big deal. So anyway, here I am.

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