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 are listening to the I Have ADHD podcast. I am medicated. I am caffeinated. I am regulated, and I am ready to roll.

Okay, in all honesty, I'm regulated-ish. But I think regulated-ish is enough. I can record this podcast while being regulated-ish.

So let's just continue.

Today, we're going to discuss how to complete a project that feels undefined. Something that feels like it's really out there.

In the future, maybe it's a long-term project, like getting a new job or writing a book or being ready to apply to grad school or something kind of nebulous like that.

Those types of long-term projects can make our ADHD brains completely paralyzed, because while they seem like they might be really doable, and we tell ourselves we should be doing them.

Upon further investigation, or like every time we try to start, we don't really know what's involved. We don't really know how long it's going to take.

We don't really know how much time to spend to it, or how to call it done, because it's such a long-term project that it never feels like it's done.

So that's what we're talking about today. I just got back from vacation. It was the most fun adventure I've ever been on with my family.

We went to Washington State. We visited Olympic National Park in Washington. We went to Ruby Beach, Realtto Beach, the whole rainforest. Late Crescent, it was just so beautiful.

I've never been in such a remote area of the country. It was just so gorgeous.

And then we flew to Las Vegas, spent 24 hours in Las Vegas, which I have got to say in my opinion is not for the neurodivergent. It was so overwhelming to all of my senses, but it was great.

And then we drove to St. George, Utah, and we spent a week in Utah, and it was incredible. We went to Zion National Park. We went to Snow Canyon State Park. We went back to Zion. It was just amazing.

We love nature and hiking and all of the things. And when I say we, I mean Greg, and I love that stuff. I'm not sure that our kids, like they were fine with it.

But we did some adventuring things, and they enjoyed that part. We joke with our kids that like, sorry, your parents think that National Parks are more fun than Disney World.

So like, we're going to visit National Parks and like not visit Disney World, and I apologize profusely to my kids for that. Like, that's just the way it is.

So we had the best time, and I am back in action here, ready to serve, excited to be with you today.

So let's talk about those long term projects that maybe you kind of let hang over your head. The big things that you tell yourself that you should do, but you're not really doing them.

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