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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.

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Hey, what's up? This is Kristen Carter, and you're listening to the I Have ADHD podcast. I am medicated. I am caffeinated, and I'm ready to roll.

Hello, hello, hello, I'm back at you today with the final executive functioning episode, Hallelujah. Let us pop a bottle of champagne, throw a freaking party because I am so, so relieved that this series is over.

No offense, but I hated every second of it. I'm so glad that it is almost over. If you didn't catch the episode titled, what to do when your goal is not exciting, you can hear the process that I went through at the beginning stages of planning out the series.

It is so adorable that I thought that this was going to be quick and easy and fun, and I would just be able to get these done.

A couple hours, and it's just real cute, that really shows a couple things, lack of self-awareness, which is a deficient executive functioning, lack of problem-solving skills, deficient executive functioning.

I mean, it's just so obvious how my own executive functioning deficiencies like played into this, but here's what I know.

When you decide that you want to do something, and you are values driven, like you know exactly why you're doing it, and why you want to do it.

And then you are willing to tolerate discomfort, and you are okay with just letting go of the fantasy of motivation, and just pulling in willingness, determination, you can get it done.

You can get it done. That's a little preview of where we're going to be going today.

Okay. So we're going to be talking about what is motivation, and why as it each years, are we motivated to do the things that we want to do, but not the things that are boring or mundane.

But like are still important, like taxes, and how in the world can we hijack our brains so that we can get ourselves to do the things that are excruciating, but that are really necessary tasks.

And that's the age-old question, isn't it?

So many of you identify as lazy because you struggle to motivate yourselves. And today I hope to dispel that identity because I do not believe that you are lazy.

You hear me? You listening? You, yes, you. You're not lazy. I can say that with 100% certainty. You are not lazy.

If you were lazy, you wouldn't be listening to a podcast about ADHD and how to motivate yourself.

Lazy people do not do self-development. Lazy people do not try to better themselves. You are trying to develop yourself. You are not lazy.

Okay. All right. Well, you know, coming in hot right away, like you don't know how else to do it. So that's where we're at.

But as we get rolling before we really get into the meat of the episode, guess what I'm going to do?

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