What's your 'flavour' of ADHD? Why understanding your own ADHD is crucial for success

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Welcome my friend.

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It is ADHD.

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Peripheral possibilities.

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And I am ADHD, coach Katherine.

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This week, we're going to do

things slightly differently,

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but bear with me you'll find it.

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Really helpful.

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I just want to take a

second to say thank you to.

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The people who get in touch.

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And let me know that they

appreciate the podcast.

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That is helpful that

they learn new things.

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And most of all that they feel.

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Connected.

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And scene.

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And understood.

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As well as finding things that

they can use in their daily life.

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That is exactly what I

intended with this podcast.

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And it makes me so joyful on

a really deep level to know

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that I can offer this to you.

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As regularly as possible.

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Ideally every week.

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And if you've enjoyed the

podcast, I appreciate a quiet.

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Direct message in social media.

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As much as a review on

any podcast platform,

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because I hope that the right

people will find a podcast.

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And I guess a review would

help, but it's not a big deal.

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Anyway, I've always hated podcasts

that start with a very long

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sang queue and ask for reviews.

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So this week.

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I thought it would be really

interesting to start looking at.

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How we can really take in.

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To what is good.

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And powerful and.

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All the potential that we have.

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With ADHD.

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I've talked a little bit about this

in episodes on strengths and hope.

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Positive thinking is really

powerful and reshapes your brain.

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It's a constant seam in the podcast, but

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I think now is a good time

to be more clear about it.

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And so this first episode,

we're going to look at.

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Why it's really important

to understand your ADHD.

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And then think about.

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How that helps us to manage our own ADHD.

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And develop our personal growth.

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So if this is the first time

you're hearing me in the podcast.

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I'll just say that ADHD.

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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

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It's a neuro developmental difference.

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It's foundations are largely genetic.

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Although some people can develop ADHD

like symptoms after experiencing trauma.

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Through brain injury.

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Through other things like lead poisoning.

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It can affect your brain.

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But most people.

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Who have what we call ADHD.

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Are genetically different.

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And so they come from new

to a divergent families.

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The most common reason

for that is that we have.

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A few genes,

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we think they're surviving

500 genes at the moment.

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Which are connected to EDH D.

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So there's no one.

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That is going to change

how you experience ADHD.

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The irony is although it's called

attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

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Very often we have a lot of attention.

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It just goes in a direction

that perhaps we hadn't planned.

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Or if you're a parent, that your

child has a lot of attention for.

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It's the latest game or for their

friends or for their TV show.

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If you were a business owner.

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You have a lot of attention for one

aspect of your work might be the social

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media engagement, which I'm very fond of.

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And not very much attention for the

actual thing that makes things work.

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Which could be admin, it could be

a CPD, it could be bookkeeping.

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So the idea that we have a

deficit of attention is incorrect.

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As for hyperactivity.

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Most people experience some hyperactivity.

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Fetty often when we're younger,

it presents physically.

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And.

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Although I used to think, oh

no, I'm never been hyperactive.

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I was a very bookish child

and I did read a lot.

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I realized that was also part of my

hyperactivity, because I would read

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two or three books at the same time.

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Hyperactivity comes in different forms.

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And for young girls,

especially it's channeled into.

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Activities that are socially acceptable.

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Somebody like me who did four

dance classes per week cycled

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everywhere and just never sat still.

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I wasn't diagnosed as hyperactive because

I was doing things that were acceptable.

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A lot of people are missed in childhood.

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Because the hyperactivity.

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Isn't very obvious and they

may be able to get by in class.

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If you go back through the episode,

I talk a lot about how different

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stages in our life, different

hormonal stages, different.

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Demand stages.

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Can meet our ADHD more obvious,

but it's usually there from birth.

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And what is ADHD?

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There is a physical difference.

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No.

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I know that I am not a scientist.

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But I do know that brain scans.

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Illustrate differences in ADHD brains.

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On brain scans.

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And studies.

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They have discovered

that people with ADHD.

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Generally Huff.

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Center connections between

regions of their brain.

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Especially, those are related

to managing impulsive behavior.

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We tend to have lower levels.

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Or lower numbers of dopamine

transmitter, neurons.

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And so these differences, both

structural in terms of connection.

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And chemical in terms of

the noodle transmitters.

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That we.

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Produce.

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Indicate ADHD.

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Of course.

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Whether we are affected

by that depends a lot.

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On our circumstances

and our stage in life.

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And that's why ADHD is

such a unique condition.

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It is a disability for many people.

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Some people don't experience

it as a disability.

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And that is wonderful.

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It is largely dependent upon

their life circumstances.

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And what I call flavor of

ADHD is that they have.

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Until, when I talk about ADHD, Although

it has very common traits, which many of

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us meet the criteria for in an assessment?

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It is a very personal constellation.

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When I think of ADHD and autism.

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I think of a three-dimensional map.

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Dr.

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Lorna wing described autism

as a spectrum condition.

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And I do think there's groans

for ADHD being the same.

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But I'm not a scientist.

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So I will stay in my lane.

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And I would just say for me

personally, It's a spectrum.

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And of course that means that some people

find they are not very much affected by

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it, but others are extremely affected.

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So your personal impact of ADHD.

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We'll be unique.

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When you find other people with ADHD.

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It is my hope that they also

understand this is a unique condition.

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And your personality.

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Your background.

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Your stage in life, as well

as your own genetic makeup.

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We'll have a big impact

on how you experience.

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This cluster of differences

that we have grouped together.

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To call ADHD.

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And the reason I say that is important is

because when we try to apply our standard.

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Or our definition of ADHD to other people.

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It fairly quickly becomes a competition.

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And given how.

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Sensitive.

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We are.

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To rejection.

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How easily we are

emotionally dysregulated.

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It's so important.

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That we have in our minds at the

beginning of any conversation with

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someone else who may have ADHD.

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That their experience will be different.

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Today, I want to focus on your ADHD

and why it's so important that you

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recognize where you are affected.

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Dr.

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Barkley has talked about

executive function as to who.

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Fought.

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When, how and why?

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Circuits of your brain all being affected.

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That's your executive functions.

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We can label them as planning,

prioritization, organization, tame

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awareness, emotional regulation.

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All of these things.

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That fundamentally ADHD

affects who you are.

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For you do.

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When you do it.

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How you do it.

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And how you feel about doing it.

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And there.

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How do you feel about it?

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The meaning is the hot circuit.

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That's the one that's most likely to get

us into bother with impulsive behavior.

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With emotional dysregulation.

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And it's also important.

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Because when we are in a state

of chronic stress, Because our

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emotions are all over the place it

changes the structure of your brain.

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Your amygdala , literally get bigger.

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When you are in a state of chronic

emotional dysregulation, anxiety, stress.

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All these other.

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Difficult conditions.

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And unfortunately.

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It means that other parts of your brain.

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Are less functional.

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They don't go away.

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And it's not permanent.

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But.

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What we pay attention

to it literally grows.

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If we are emotionally struggling,

if we're feeling anxious, upset,

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If we're chronically, If we

have a chronic negative view

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of ourselves and of our life.

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It's going to change your brain even more.

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When you have ADHD, It's really important.

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That you have this awareness of

how you're thinking and feeling.

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Affecting your brain.

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On top of your.

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Foundational difference.

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With ADHD.

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How can you discover what

your flavor of ADHD is?

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We talk about ADHD presentations.

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And the old days it was called add, then

they were called ADHD typesIn general,

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there are three broad presentations.

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Which are hyperactive.

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Combined.

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And.

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In attentive.

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They're fairly obvious.

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When you describe something like

that to Hey, productive or that.

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Hey, per kinetic on the go.

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Very agitated, physically

active, but also.

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Cognitively very active and

Always thinking, always chatting.

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Perhaps.

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You have a very variable

processing, young person who

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just chats from the minute their.

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He's open until the

minute they go to sleep.

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Of course that's not diagnostic by any

stretch of the imagination, but if they

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have ADHD, It's a good chance that they

may be high, productive presentation.

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And attentive presentation.

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ADHD is, as you would expect.

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The DG me.

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Perhaps needs to be

prompted to pay attention.

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You may find that like me.

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You often forget what you were doing.

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Within a couple of seconds

of starting a task.

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And then you need to bring

yourself back to focus it hover.

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I have a prompt nearby.

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But if you're in attentive,

that doesn't mean.

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That you're not experiencing

some high productivity.

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Usually it's an inner monologue.

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Conversation you have with yourself.

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And Zach could be hyperactive.

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Of course combined means that

we have experienced bulls

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there's some suggestions that we all.

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Experienced some

hyperactivity to begin with.

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And become combined or

inattentive as we get older.

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But again, everyone is different.

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So think about which one of those kinds of

presentation you fit most at the moment.

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And that gives you a very

broad starting point.

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First thinking about your ADHD.

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The next step would be to

think about your daily life.

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You can pick it know rather than

going back to your childhood.

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If you like, but think about.

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What made you think

about ADHD to begin with?

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Where you very forgetful.

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Where are you procrastinating?

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Where are you constantly on the goal?

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One day?

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But then fairly tired and

unable to focus the next.

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Just take some time.

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To think about.

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What does your E D H D.

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Look like in your daily life.

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You might want to use your mobile

phone and take some notes on there.

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You might use voice notes

when you notice something is.

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Not how you would like.

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Self-observation I think

is the most powerful tool.

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And it's.

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One of the reasons I'm

starting with this topic.

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You might also enjoy journaling

and I think journaling.

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He has got some really

beneficial side effects.

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But I sometimes hesitate

to recommend it because.

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Quite often, I cannot write fast

enough to keep up with my brain.

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So I tend to dictate notes

into my phone anteater free

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and paid apps that you can use.

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To transcribe that into text.

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Because.

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Although it is.

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And this is ironic.

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Although I can talk quite quickly.

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When I'm listening.

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Prefer to have a written

text in front of me.

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Because like many people with ADHD.

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Auditory processing is a challenge for me.

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You may also, if you're feeling

brave, Ask others for their insight.

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What have they noticed?

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It's difficult for you.

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We are D Z recognize

that you need extra help.

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That you may be struggle.

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No.

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Why have I asked you to think

about what your kind of ADHD

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is, where to affect your life?

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When I spent so much time talking about.

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The strengths of ADHD or the strengths

of each person and in their character.

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Because it's important that we are aware.

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Of where ADHD is affecting our daily life.

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Unless we're await of it.

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We can't begin to think about scaffolding.

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Strategies.

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Or if we actually need to make a

fundamental change to how we're living.

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There's no point having

a genetic solution.

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That you adopt when actually

what you really need.

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Is a deep understanding of your ADHD.

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You're sinking and self-belief patterns.

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And what works for you in terms of your

executive skills and you're processing.

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So before you began making

any changes to your life.

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Spend some time thinking about.

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What year ADHD flavor or profile is like,

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And really spend time noticing.

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Queer it's affecting you just know.

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I should see.

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Do all of this was no judgment.

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As soon as we begin to judge ourselves,

our emotional dysregulation will

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kick in and we will begin to feel.

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Unhappy stressed, anxious.

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When we're judging, we can't learn.

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And learning.

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Is.

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Really good for your brain.

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The for everybody's brain, but

especially people with ADHD.

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So get curious.

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I get full of wonder.

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Where is my ADHD today?

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And how is it affecting me?

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If you're somebody who struggles with.

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Procrastination for example, which is

the topic of my ebook, because it's just

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no, there are different ways to approach

it, depending on what's causing it.

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Which can be dependent upon

both your personal state.

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And your ADHD.

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For example.

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If you're somebody who is

more emotionally dysregulated.

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You're more likely to struggle with

procrastination because you don't believe

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that you can succeed or you're scared

of what will happen if you get it wrong.

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That perfectionist impulse.

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That's somebody who's experiencing

emotional dysregulation.

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And so the support for that

would be finding a cheerleader

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someday to support you.

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Finding people who can

recognize your work.

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Recognize your effort.

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And just see how you're trying

so that eventually you learn

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to do that for yourself.

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If you're somebody who finds that the

regularly sabotage their long term goals.

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Because they have some short term thing.

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That's much more fun.

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For example, if you're trying to

get your business finances in order

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and you keep putting it off and.

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Spending time on YouTube.

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That's your dopamine.

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That is your reward in sensitivity.

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That's part of your ADHD.

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And it's an impulsive decision.

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Driven by your neurochemistry.

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And when you recognize that.

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It's so much easier to disengage.

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Then when you think A bad person.

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I clearly don't care that much.

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So I'm just going to continue scrolling.

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Rather than say, oh there's

my brain chemistry again.

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I know what to do to get

myself feeling better.

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Then I'll tackle this job.

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And that will vary from person to person.

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But for example, I worked with.

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Business owner.

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Who was extremely talented.

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But who really struggled

with procrastination?

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And to the point where they were

wondering if they should even continue.

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With our business, if

he would ever succeed.

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Of course they did, but in the short

term, We had to identify ways for them

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to motivate themselves through fun.

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This is where people

start to roll their eyes.

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Honestly the most empowering

saying that person did.

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It was developed a playlist.

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That they could blast for 10 minutes.

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That would completely shift their

emotional state, their physical state.

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Because their brain responded.

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When your brain responds.

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Your emotions shift.

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And sane.

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You have the lovely

neurochemical soup that you need.

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To feel better about beginning a

task that isn't instantly rewarding.

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Of course helping clients understand.

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Their own version of ADHD is

something that I do every day.

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It's one of the most

wonderful parts of my job.

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It's when people recognize it themselves.

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And they have their self awareness.

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That is actually quite high up

in Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

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But it's something they recognize . And

then they can adapt the tools and

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strategies to work for themselves.

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As part of my framework.

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Cause I use regularly now and it

is incredible to see the change.

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When we have those light bulb moments of

recognition of what is happening and why.

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And without judgment, we can change

direction and suddenly all starts to flow.

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Beautifully.

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And if you're an adult and

you're a parent or grandparent.

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You can demonstrate that for

the young people in your life.

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They can watch you grow.

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And they can learn that it's

okay to change direction.

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And that you are.

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Coaching yourself.

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Ultimately that cycle of my program is.

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For people to learn to coach themselves.

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So what are some tools that you

can use apart from observation?

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And asking other people.

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Obviously this isn't available to

everyone, but a diagnosis and assessment.

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By a professional is the gold standard.

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And when you go for your assessment,

they will ask you questions.

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That you will need to answer.

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With these.

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Insights that you have gained

from yourself observation.

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And I also have a presentation

tool that you can use yourself.

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I'll include a link to it in the show

notes and dig it out of so Google drive

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vault so that people can access it again.

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And this also allows you to

understand your presentation of ADHD.

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And start to recognize

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some of the more common behaviors

that you experienced with ADHD.

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But the most powerful thing you can do is

to take that time, to observe it yourself.

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And they can note.

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Either on your phone or in a

notepad, if you prefer to write.

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Or use your voice notes to dictate.

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Along with understanding how

it's affecting your behavior.

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You might also want to pay some

attention to the parts of your life

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that can make it HD much worse.

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For instance, do you find it?

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If you've heard two or three

nights with not very much sleep?

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You find it very difficult to focus.

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Of course everybody does,

but when we're already.

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People who are challenged in

terms of directing or focus.

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Like a torch light.

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And it tends to swing around at random.

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That's a clue for you.

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To start thinking about who

you want to reshape your life.

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Perhaps you've noticed that when

there are too many things happening

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at the weekend and then work is busy.

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You begin to experience more stress and

then it's really difficult for you to.

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Plan out projects.

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To prioritize tasks.

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To come up with solutions that you

would normally have no problem with.

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Again, everyone experiences this, but.

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People with ADHD.

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Experienced this more often.

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And I do also think we

are more aware of it.

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But it's really important that

you record it because the one

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thing that is almost universal.

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It's a very poor working memory and a

lack of remembering things for ourselves.

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We know things at work.

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And when I mentioned it, clientsy.

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Oh, of course.

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Yes, I did that before

and it worked really well.

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Doesn't it?

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And I do that too.

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Yes, it worked wonderfully.

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Oh, I just forgot.

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Why did I forget?

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And.

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It's because of ADHD.

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So when you recognize that

things affect you negatively.

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You're going to be able to work out what

the opposite would be, and then use that

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to start building your own life framework.

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To work better with your brain and

to have a really great life because

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that's what everybody deserves.

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So I hope that you understand

how important it is.

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To take the time and recognize

your own flavor of ADHD.

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That you've identified one or two tools

that are easy to access and you can use

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to start mapping it on ADHD experience.

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And develop your own framework.

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And I do hope that you're able to see.

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It comes down to your brain.

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And although we have got.

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Little control over our genetics.

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We do have the power to

influence our brain structure.

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We can increase and decrease.

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Parts of our brain by repetition.

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And even by how we sync.

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So next week, I will talk

more about the idea of.

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Building these neural networks, these.

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Connections but look a bit more.

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At individual executive functions.

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And especially how the Uplay.

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To people who are in charge of their work.

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Whether you're self-employed.

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A solo preneur, an entrepreneur

with a staff of 50 or a hundred

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people, or you're a manager.

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And you're really feeling things are

just getting a pit on top of you.

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Next week, we're going to focus on.

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How you can manage your executive

functions, whatever you're doing at work.

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So until next week.

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Spend some time thinking about your ADHD.

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And until we meet again, take care.