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Squirrel. Squirrel. In this episode, we're talking about 50 ways

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to focus. Wait, no, fuck that. Who has time for

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50? We're talking about five ways to focus

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when you're an ADHD entrepreneur. Squirrel. Hi, I'm Katie

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McManus, business strategist and money mindset coach. And welcome to the Weenie

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cast. Squirrel. When I was planning this

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episode, I was super excited to share 50 ways

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for you to focus as an ADHD business owner. But then I remembered,

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wait, we have ADHD. That's way too many

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items. We don't have the attention span for that. I don't have

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the attention span to make that list, and you do not have the attention span

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to listen. So we're going to do the top five. One of the most

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common questions I get from my clients, from people

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who follow me on social media, and from you, my listeners, is

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how do you focus when you have ADHD and you

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run a business? Right? Because one of the things about having ADHD is

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we thrive in structure, but we massively

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suck at creating it for ourselves. And when you run a business,

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guess. Who'S creating the structure around that? You are. And

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so finding different ways to focus becomes your new

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holy grail adventure. And the shitty thing about

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it is. That what helps you focus will change over time,

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right? Because we also need variety. And

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so what works for us for. Maybe three months will have an expiration

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date. At one point, it'll stop working and. We have to switch tactics,

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which is why I'm giving you five. And because we are coming up on

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the holiday season, we'll have some great holiday present

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ideas for you and your ADHD family members and loved

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ones. So listen to the end so that. You can hear that list.

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As I go through this list, I've heard from a lot of listeners that you're

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using a lot of the tips that I use for yourself and also for your

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kids. So I'm going to be giving you what works for you and also

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what will work for the little humans that live in your house as well, if

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they have ADHD. What I share here, I'll also be sharing

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how I did it. As I was growing up, through middle. And high school

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and college, I didn't take any medication. I found

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strategies that helped me focus, get through classes, get a's in

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some classes, C's in others, but by using some really

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simple techniques, that really helped me get down to work. And so I'm

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going to share those with you as well. And after having said that, the first

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one probably won't work for your kids.

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You. The first tactic for you to focus better as an

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ADHD business owner is to do some body doubling. Body

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doubling can look like a lot of different things. So for a lot of people,

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it's like a coworking session. For others, it's just having someone else

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in your space while you're getting work done. You know those movies

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and those tv shows where the main character at some point

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realizes that they have to get their life together, so they invite their girlfriends over

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and they clean out their. Closet with their friends there. I remember this scene

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specifically from Sex in the city. I'm actually convinced that

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is an ADHD thing, right? Because how many times have

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you tried to do a household activity like

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cleaning out a closet or organizing your kitchen? And

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alone, you only get so far, and usually you get to the point

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where you've made the biggest possible mess that you possibly

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could, and then you get tired and you're like, oh no, there's no going back.

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And also, I've lost all of my executive function to continue

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this project. One of the things that can really help you push through in

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those scenarios is by having a friend around and they don't even

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necessarily have to help. They could literally just be there

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playing on their phone, having a glass of wine while you

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are doing everything that. You need to do in your kitchen. But it

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makes a massive difference. You have company. You have someone there

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who's almost holding. You accountable to getting it done. Now the perk to having a

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friend over while you're doing this is like they're going to feel like a dick

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if they don't actually help you. So you will ultimately get some

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help. But I want to give you full permission to

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ask your friends to do this with you. And you can lure

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them over with cheese plates, wine, chocolate. You

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can put a movie on for them like they're a toddler that you're trying to

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keep occupied while you're doing something. And then you get to

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have a movie on in the background as well. You can even invite several

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friends over. I used to do this when I lived in San Francisco and I

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needed to meal prep. I would invite a friend or two over for dinner

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and I would cook dinner, but I would also cook a lot of the dinner

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so that I would have enough for my lunches for. The next few days.

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It made all the difference. It made it so much more fun, and it

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really kept me to a routine for the period of time that. It worked for

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me because like I said, it had an expiration date. Like most things,

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the other way that. I've done body doubling in the past. Is

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I've reached out to friends who. I know are also working on their.

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Businesses and I've asked them do you want to do a co working

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afternoon or a co working Sunday? And we

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decide on whoever's house has. The biggest dining room table

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or the. Most comfortable places for you to sit down

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and the strongest wifi. And everyone brings their

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laptop and whatever. Things that they're working on and you.

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Hang out for a little bit, you maybe grab lunch and then you

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sit. Down and you do work. One of the best parts of this coworking

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session is that whenever you have an idea or you're not sure about.

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Something, you can pop your head out. Of your laptop and you have a bunch

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of people around you who are also doing work but are also open. To

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helping you talk through it to. Make this effective for folks with

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ADHD. You don't want the session to be too short. You want to give

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it at least 3 hours of actual work

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time so that you can really get into focus. And

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get those creative juices flowing. You also have the

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option for doing body doubling virtually. And

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this is actually something that we have in the hyper Focus membership. It's one Friday

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a month from 01:00. P.M. To 04:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time

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on one Friday each month. And if you're curious about

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joining the hyper Focus membership, then I want you to go to the link in

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the show notes and submit your name and email so that you can

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be on the shortlist to be notified first. When we open the

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doors again we have a coworking session. And in this

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coworking session you're on. Zoom and you check in. In the

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beginning you tell everyone what you're going to be working on. And then we go

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off camera and. Off audio and work for basically the full

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3 hours. And at the end we check in. And tell everyone what we

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accomplished. We celebrate and then we go on with our day. The

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fun thing about body doubling is that you can actually do this without. Other people

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knowing by going to coffee shops. One of the things that I

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notice. That works best for me is when I go to work in a

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coffee. Shop or even in a pub, it. Has to be busy enough that you

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can't overhear and understand other people's conversations, right?

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Because if you're trying to think of how to say something and you're typing. Something

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up, but you have someone complaining. About their ex spouse

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sitting next to you and that's all you can hear. You're not

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going to be able to focus on the thing. You're going to be eavesdropping on

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their. Gossip, which, I mean, no shame on that. If you want to

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eavesdrop, eavesdrop your. Heart out, but it

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won't help you do a lot of work. So you want to find a place

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that either has really bad acoustics for people having

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conversations and so there's a lot of ambient noise or that's fairly.

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Quiet, but has other people present. Now, I

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mentioned before that this is. One of the few that will probably not work for

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your kids. And this is because your kids, and I'm speaking

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specifically about homework. No kids want to do homework,

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especially kids with ADHD. You put them in a setting

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with. Their friends and they're not going to do

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shit. They're going to mess around. They're going to find a way to avoid

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doing the work. And I'm sorry, kids, for outing you on this, but

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I've been there and. It just doesn't work. One thing that you could

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do if you're a parent and you have your own business and there's work that

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you need to do is maybe you could do some coworking with your kids.

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Now the only struggle here is you're. Going to have

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to take that part of your brain that wants to nag them

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to focus and do their thing. You're going to have to push that part of

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your brain to the backseat, right. And really focus on

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your work. One of the things that will help this

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be less about you making them. Do their homework is you get to. Ask

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them, hey, I actually have this. Big project to work on and

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I. Work better when I'm working along with someone. Do you want to

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do a coworking session and do it in a way where they feel like

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this is a bonding experience, where they're helping you as. Their

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parent and also getting to do. Some work themselves so that they

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don't. Have to do their homework later. This doesn't work for all kids, but

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it works for some.

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The next item on our 50 focus tips cut down to

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five focus tips list is moving while

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you work. Unless you've been living in a cave for the last year,

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you will have seen a ton of social media videos

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of people working at their standing desks while walking on one of

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those treadmills. Now, it seems silly, but this is something that

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really does help people who have adhd focus

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more. When I was in 7th grade, I had this

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geography teacher who was a major hard ass did

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not care about making any of the topics interesting

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or easy to learn. All she cared about was us

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memorizing the capitals of countries and different

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geographical locations, whatever. It was really

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fucking boring. And I failed or got a

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d on the first two tests because I. Couldn'T get myself

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into the mode of. Actually memorizing what she wanted me to

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memorize. Now, after talking to a couple of people who were in the

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grade ahead of me who'd been in her class, I figured out a couple of

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different strategies that would help me learn better. So, first and foremost, I got

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colored index cards. And not just like the pastel ones, the

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bright neon ones. Second, I went out and I bought, or I didn't

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buy. I was in 7th grade. My parents bought one of those little tiny

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stepping machines that you don't really move that much, but like your legs

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are moving. We then bought a music stand that I would have right in

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front of. Me, and I would go through my. Flashcards

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with the maps right in front. Of me and these index cards so. That I

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can memorize information. Now, this is something that I urge. You to do

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with your children if. They have a really hard time memorizing stuff, or if

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they have any work. That they need to do that they really struggle

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to sit down and do. As an adult who runs my

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own. Business, oftentimes when I'm on the phone. With my clients, I'm walking around my

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kitchen island. Other times when I'm brainstorming different

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programs, I want to roll out different freebies I want to create. I'll actually

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set up a bunch of papers and pens on the floor with my yoga mat,

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and I'll be stretching. And as I stretch, I'll just kind. Of let the ideas

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come to me. And mid stretch, I'll get an idea. I'll stop

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stretching, because sometimes it's dangerous to write stuff while you're in a certain position,

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and I will make note of whatever the idea is, and then. I'll go back

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to stretching. This is a great way to take scale of your body at the

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same. Time as you're doing work. And I'm convinced that

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sometimes ideas are. Locked in

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those knots that you have in your muscles, and sometimes you just need to roll

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them out or stretch them out, and all of a sudden the ideas hit your

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bloodstream and you have them and you can just run with them. Moving while you're

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working is absolutely essential to doing

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your work well. We operate best when we're in motion.

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The third item on this list is music. You want to find the

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right playlist for you to do a specific

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task. I've actually found some really interesting ways

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to do this. So, like, if you're reading something that's kind of boring, but you

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have to do for work, find some music that the theme kind of goes along

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with what you're talking about or what you're reading. Know, and this is great for

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your kids, too. So say they have to read a fantasy novel for

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their english class, and they're really not into it because they're not interested in

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fantasy at all. But find a soundtrack from Lord of

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the Rings or Harry Potter or another fantasy movie

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and make a playlist on Spotify with only the ones

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that don't have any vocalizations. Right? Because instrumentals tend to be more

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helpful because we don't have that voice in our head distracting us. This creates

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a really cool immersive experience for the person who's

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reading. Because not only are they reading about this fantasy

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world, but they have this music in their mind that kind of creates this

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extra level of ambiance. Now, say you have to read a marketing

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book about doing Facebook ads. Put on some

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electronic music. I haven't actually seen the movie the social

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network. I can't imagine the soundtrack is very. Good, but

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maybe you can listen to that. Who knows? And if you don't know what

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the. Social network is, it's a movie about. The creation of Facebook.

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Anyway, I probably didn't need to explain that.

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I remember back when I was studying for my certified

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sommelier exam where you have to just memorize a crap ton

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of information from soil types to what's the grade of the

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hillside in Germany where the Riesling grapes are grown? To

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different alcohol percentages that are allowed. In France

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versus California. To be qualified as a wine or

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to be qualified as something else. It was not fascinating

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stuff to learn, just those little itty bitty nuggets. And

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I remember it was around the. Time that I'd heard a song by massive

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attack, which we can link in the show notes for you. It's kind of

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dark, twisted music, but for some reason,

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it was what I needed to be able to sit down and study.

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I played one of their albums on repeat, probably about 500 times while

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I was studying for you. You need to figure out what music is going to

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work best for you. And if you're a music lover, it's really tempting when you

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start listening to music that you really love to just listen to the music

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that's not the right music for you. It has to be music that can kind

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of like, fade into the background, but it takes up enough of your brain

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space that you're not able to get distracted.

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The fourth item on our list of 50, cut down to

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five, is you want to exercise before you do

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the work. Now, I've talked about this a little bit before about

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how lactic acid impacts your brain and allows you to focus

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more. Now, I'm really bad at referencing information, and so

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before I recorded this episode, I actually went online

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and I found. A very

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technical article about how this actually works, and

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I did not understand a word. So I copied and

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pasted that paragraph and put it into chat GBT and asked chat GBT

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to reword it in a way that a 7th grader could understand it, which, by

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the way, is my new favorite hack. If you want to take it, please be

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my guest. And Chat GPT very kindly

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came up with this. In simple terms, when your body

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is. Working normally, a substance called lactic acid. In your

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brain helps give energy to your brain cells.

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It also sends signals to control how your brain

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works, helps your brain remember things better, and

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makes connections between nerve cells stronger. So

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lactic acid is a chemical that's released in your muscles when you're doing certain

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exercises. So if you lift weights, you know how you feel

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really, really sore the day after you lift weights. That's because you have

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lactic acid in your muscles. And of course, it doesn't stay in your muscles. It

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travels all throughout your body and. Ends up in your brain and helps you focus

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more. Another thing that can help you build up some lactic acid in

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your system. Is if you do intermittent

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sprints, you can do this in a very short amount of

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time. If you have 20 minutes and you're. Willing to get a little sweaty,

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go outside, sprint as hard as you can.

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For 15 seconds and then walk for a minute. And

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then sprint as hard as you can for another 15 seconds, and then

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walk for a minute and repeat that. Until your time is

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up. That will be enough for you to. Build up some lactic

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acid and be able to focus really well later on in the

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day. So if you're committed to doing exercise as your

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thing to help you focus. Better on your work, you want to. Be aware of

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two things, okay? So first and foremost, you want to be sure that you're giving

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your body. Enough protein, because when you have lactic. Acid in

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your body, because you've worked. Your muscles, it means your muscles are actually

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breaking themselves down and rebuilding. So you're getting

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stronger, but your body's. Going to need the building blocks to be able to do

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that. I don't care if it's protein powder, if it's chicken, having some extra

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eggs each day, make sure you're fueling your body

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correctly. And also, water intake. Your

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brain cannot function well if it's not lubed up properly. So make

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sure that your brain has enough water to function. Which brings me to

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our final item on this list of ways to focus. Ooh,

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what am I going to say next? Well, you'll have to keep listening to find

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out. But first, squirrel, squirrel, squirrel, squirrel.

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Which brings me to our final item on this

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list of ways to focus. You want to come up with your own

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comfort checklist. This will be different for most people, but there are some

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standard items that. Go across the board for all of us. Now,

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speaking of hydration, you want to have on your

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checklist your drinking vessel, your water

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drinking vessel. And I say it like that because. We all know

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that we all have one particular container that we will

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drink water out of. If we don't have access to that container, we won't

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drink water. You can give me mugs. You can give me smaller

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cups. I won't drink water out of them. I will drink them out of this

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massive bottle that my producer Neil actually bought for me.

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And I love it because it kind. Of operates like a sippy cup and. I

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feel like a toddler because it's massive and my hands look really small

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around it. We're going to link this bottle in. The show notes, so if

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you're missing. Like, a hydration vessel

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in your life. You can really check this out and. See if it's the right

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vessel for you. The other cool thing about this vessel is it's literally

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half a gallon of water. And so I try to make sure that I

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drink three of them. I fill it up three times in a day. That makes

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sure you're plenty hydrated. And of course, a lot of these items that I'm going

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to mention are great Christmas gifts if you know what works for

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your ADHD loved one. Speaking of beverages, if you have

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ADHD. Chances are you're not satisfied with just

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one beverage. You need at least three. You need one

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to hydrate, one to caffeinate, and one for fun.

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So you need to make sure that. On your comfort checklist, you have your

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favorite mug and you also have whatever. That fun drink is.

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So for me, this is Spindrift, which. Is my go to sparkling

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water or. Any kind of sparkling water. So if you have an

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ADHD loved one who loves sparkling water, and that's their fun

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drink. A great gift to get them is. A sodastream, so they can

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have endless sparkling water for a fraction of the price.

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And no, I'm not being sponsored by sodastream, but if they want to pay me

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money. Hi, sodastream people. Our email is

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katie@katiemcmanus.com and really, if. Any of

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the brands that I've mentioned in this episode would like to

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sponsor. This podcast, again, my email

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is katie@katiemcmanus.com. Other things on your checklist

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you want to think about, what are the things. That you will get up to

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get. When you're trying to sit down and. Focus to work, right? So for

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me, it's beverages, it's snacks. One of my

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favorite places to order snacks from is this place. It's called

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nuts.com.

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Nuts.com. They have a whole

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variety of different. Snacks and tons of nuts, which are a very

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healthy snack. I try to keep these on the healthy side because

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it's really easy to just mindlessly snack while you're trying to get something

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done. Be very conscious of what you're picking for this. Other things that can

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distract you from your work are if your clothes aren't.

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Comfortable, there's nothing wrong with wearing soft. Pants if you're sitting down

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to do. Creative work, if you're doing the work. From home

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mullet, where it's professional up. Top and fun on the bottom,

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then make sure that those professional tops feel actually

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comfortable. So often, especially us women,

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will sacrifice our comfort to look professional

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and that we're not doing that anymore. If something's

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not comfortable, it does not. Belong in your closet.

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And this includes, if any tags bother. You, cut them out. I also

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like to keep a different. Selection of shoes under my desk. I don't really do

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this consciously, but it kind of works that way because when I get to my

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desk, I. Always just take my shoes off, which. Is kind of why whenever I

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can't find my shoes, my go to place is my office. Like, your

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feet can get cold or they can get hot, so you want. To have different

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shoes available to you. I'm not really a sock person. I know some of you

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are. I just don't understand it. In addition to that, you want to make sure

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that you have any blankets, pillows, other things that will

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allow for you to be comfortable, but not so. Comfortable that you fall

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asleep while you're doing all this focus

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work. So fuzzy blankets, pillows that actually

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support your lower back. Because let's be real, none of us. Are getting any

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younger. And back support is really important. And when you have this

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comfort checklist, what you want to do is literally. Write it down

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or type it up. And anytime you are about to sit down

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for a good several hours worth of work, you have to get a

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ton done. You have to really focus. You have to be creative. You want

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to make sure you go. Through this checklist and get everything

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on. It so that it is available to. You wherever you are. This

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will allow for you to get into focus faster because you're not

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thinking, oh, I forgot this thing. Oh, I forgot this other thing. Oh, I'm hungry.

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Oh, I want this. The only thing that really can distract you is that you'll

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have to pee. Because you have so many beverages. One of the most critical

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items for your comfort checklist is your favorite

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type of pen. And you know what I'm talking about. We all have

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them. For me, it's the pilot g

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2.38. It's a clicky pen. I always

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chew the top of the. Clicky bit, but I'll chew it to. The point where

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I'll chew it off and then I can't use the pen anymore. Partially because it's

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too hard to click, but also because I can't chew it. Then there's no

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part to chew. Then I have to get a new one. Now we're going to

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include a bunch of links to different things that you can buy for your

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ADHD loved ones. But I'll be real. I'm going to include an Amazon

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wishlist on here. If you want to gift me any of these things, I will

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strategycall. On this call we will talk about your

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goals, your dreams and your frustrations in getting

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there. And if it's a fit for both of us, then we can talk about

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different ways to work together.

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Katie like

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ten packs of this on the Amazon.

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And. And she really likes Ben's.

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