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Hey what's up? You are listening to the I have ADHD podcast. I am your host Kristen Carter and today I have on the

podcast my client Rich. I'm so excited for you guys to hear from him. We have so many things that we could talk about because Rich you've been

in focused for an entire year but today we are going to really constrain down to the topic of evaluating 2020.

So one of my coaches said recently that the best predictor of success in 2021 is the story you're telling yourself about 2020.

I've been thinking about this so much because I think most of us would say that we are pretty entitled to tell a negative story about

2020. Globally, we've been experiencing so much fear and confusion and political unrest and there's so many people that have lost their lives and been sick and lost their jobs and had to alter their worlds in a way that was like at the very least pretty inconvenient.

And so last week in our focus membership we did a20 evaluation. I really encouraged the group to feel all of the

feelings about 20 and yes, of course, acknowledge and validate the pain and the struggle, but then really decide how they wanted to think about it on purpose.

So on today's podcast, we're going to discuss how we can kind of rewrite our story of 2020 in a way that's true and authentic, but also sets us up as the hero and allows us to step into 2021 with some bad assery. So, Rich, you sent me a

slack message of your 2020 eval and I was so struck by the way that you processed your year that I forced you to come on the

podcast. So thank you so much for being here. First, before we get started, tell us just a little bit about yourself.

Who are you? What do you do? What's your life like?

My life is usually a little crazy. I have three kids. I'm married. I'm a designer and animator by day and then

All sorts of whatever strikes my fancy by night, you know, ADHD and all.

So, yeah, I mean, you know, pretty uh, baseline, you know, middle club American existence.

What does a designer and animator do?

I've actually been curious about your work.

So tell me for like a second, what do you do? Yeah, I mean it's basically graphic design then you make move and so it's it's you know

I do television commercials I do

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