If you're in college and you're writing an essay, you're not only writing that final essay for that paper, you're also writing every single essay you've ever struggled with and ever written, and all of those negative emotions coming up from way back in fifth grade are still there.

Dating is a good example, right?

And every time you go to ask someone out, you're not just asking them out, you're asking out everybody that you ever asked out before and most of

those people rejected you and potentially it's also all of those people you wanted to

ask out but didn't they're wrapped up in there too and that's your wall of awful around taking the risk of asking someone out on a date. episode 78. This is the show designed to help those of us who have really good

intentions and a slightly wandering attention. My name is Eric Tivers, I'm a

licensed clinical social worker, coach and consultant.

We know that starting can be the hardest part, so let's get started.

But first, let me thank our sponsors.

If you were new to this podcast, I would like to welcome you and I really want to

encourage you to start back at the beginning. You will be able to hear how this show has evolved from a podcast featuring just me as I share some of my own stories and my productivity strategies to a show featuring you and your stories and your strategies.

Last fall I launched the very first ADHD-HD Rewired Coaching and Accountability Group.

Just like the podcasts, these groups have evolved. Each group has been incredible in its own right, but the one thing that has been so clear to me is I've been providing productivity groups for those of us with ADHD, is that productivity for people with ADHD is so much more than just

about productivity. It's about dealing with shame and inadequacy. It's about overcoming those emotional hurdles and challenging our belief systems.

It's about looking at our worthiness and learning how to overcome failures and learning from our failures.

To quote Zigzigler, failure is an event, not a person.

Every person that has gone through one own set of challenges and

accountability groups has come with their own set of challenges and strengths.

There is something that is so extraordinarily powerful about sharing with the group, about

things like that phone call that you've been putting off for weeks for that form that you were

supposed to do weeks ago or that paper that even struggling to complete.

And to be able to hear and see the other members of this group look at you and say with full sincerity.

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