Episode 327
Why ADHD Entrepreneurs Underestimate Everything: The Time Blindness Trap [Ep. 327]
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You know that “it’ll only take 15 minutes” lie we all tell ourselves? The one that somehow turns into two hours and a mountain of frustration? That’s time blindness, and it’s one of the biggest culprits behind overwhelm, inconsistency, and constant “playing catch up” for ADHD entrepreneurs and service providers.
In this episode of The Real Truth About Business, Michelle breaks down what time blindness really is, why it wreaks havoc on your productivity and planning, and how to create structure that actually supports your brain. You’ll hear practical, real-world strategies to help you stop running late, overbooking yourself, and bottlenecking your own business growth, without feeling boxed in.
Whether you’re a coach, consultant, OBM, VA, designer, copywriter, or ADHD entrepreneur who’s tired of feeling behind and beating yourself up for it, this episode helps you move from frustration to focus and from chaos to clarity with realistic, actionable systems that work with your brain, not against it.
You’ll learn:
- What time blindness really means for ADHD and neurodivergent entrepreneurs
- How to stop underestimating how long tasks will take
- Why time blindness can break client trust and create business bottlenecks
- Practical ways to double or triple your time estimates and regain breathing room
- How to use timers, task tracking, and reverse engineering to plan smarter
This is the real truth about business growth, especially for neurodivergent service providers who crave clarity, structure, and results without falling for every trend online.
Links Mentioned:
Resource: ADD.org
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Transcript
But it will only take me 15 minutes.
Speaker A:Have you ever told yourself that?
Speaker A:And then an hour, maybe two, sometimes even longer, you look up and you realize that whatever was only supposed to take you 15 minutes is still not done.
Speaker A:If you have and you can relate to this, and you can relate to this on a regular basis, then you probably are experiencing time blindness.
Speaker A:And ooh, is this a big one for me and for many of my other ADHD neurodivergent folks out there.
Speaker A:So I'm excited to dive into this one.
Speaker A:But for those with adhd, it is one of the biggest reasons why your planning and structure fall apart, which then leads to feeling behind all the time, feeling like tasks not getting accomplished, things not getting done demand avoidance kicking in, overwhelm kicking in and shutting down, overthinking, right?
Speaker A:Like this all leads from one thing to the next and they all kind of compound.
Speaker A:And so that's why this is such a serious topic that I wanted to bring up, especially during ADHD Awareness month.
Speaker A:And again, for those of you I think in general, ADHD or not, as I will have said before, whether you are diagnosed or not, as entrepreneurs, I think we all struggle with time blindness, especially when we get into like a hyper focus mode and, or we're trying to figure something out or we're getting, we get involved in these rabbit holes that take us down paths that don't need to, that we don't need to go down.
Speaker A:And so I'm excited to talk about this one today.
Speaker A:I've got a couple fun, really fun stories and just some things to share.
Speaker A:So anyways, let's dive in.
Speaker A:We're going to make it happen.
Speaker A:All right, so what is time blindness?
Speaker A:And now I, you know, I'm a big fan of reading facts, not just talking about it from my own experience, although I will.
Speaker A:But I also want to bring facts to, to the conversation.
Speaker A:So time blindness especially is ADHD brains struggling to sense time.
Speaker A:Accordingly, that's all it is.
Speaker A:And really truly just this chronic underestimation of how long something will take.
Speaker A:And so I wanted to do a little bit more research on this.
Speaker A:So I am on add.org and really look into like, why is this such a problem?
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:So what is time blindness?
Speaker A:According to add.org is time.
Speaker A:Time blindness is adult ADHD is the inability to sense how much time has passed and estimate the time needed to get something done.
Speaker A:This is not an official diagnosis, but it can significantly impact your daily life.
Speaker A:But then also I wanted to really think about, like, but why, why is this so prevalent for ADHD entrepreneurs or just entrepreneurs in general.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:And so it says ADHD is a real medical condition which we know that affects the structure and chemistry of the brain.
Speaker A:And because of this, it isn't surprising that ADHD affects time perception.
Speaker A:According to research, the ability to perceive and estimate time is linked to the activity levels of several areas of the brain, including the prefrontal cortex.
Speaker A:A lower level of activity in these brain regions may contribute to poor time perception.
Speaker A:And that was a medical journal published on the National Library of Medicine.
Speaker A:Again, just making sure that we're covering our facts, we're not just spewing information, which of course I, I do always want to share just from experience because I mean research is great and all of these great, these studies are out there.
Speaker A:But if like, okay, how does it actually relate to me?
Speaker A:Right, and how does this affect me and what do I do about it as far as being an entrepreneur and to increase my productivity, increase my potential and get out of this habit.
Speaker A:So how time blindness might show up for you is overbooking yourself, running late, getting bottlenecked in client delivery.
Speaker A:I know for me one of the things is I typically run late to appointments, especially out of the house, because I just assume everything is like, well, it's only going to take me 10 minutes.
Speaker A:Everything is only going to take me 10 minutes.
Speaker A:And sometimes, you know, I don't take into consideration traffic or just in general that it's really not a 10 minute drive, it's more like a 15, 20 minute drive.
Speaker A:I mean I, I live in a big community.
Speaker A:It takes like seven minutes just to get out or like, I don't know, maybe not quite seven, but probably good five minutes just to get out of the community.
Speaker A:So that means most things are going to take longer than 10 minutes to get there.
Speaker A:But also too, I think this is really important in this bottlenecks and client delivery.
Speaker A:This is where I see it the most with clients is where they think they can get all of these projects done in four clients, especially if you're a done for you service provider in a little bit of time.
Speaker A:But they don't take into consideration communication that may need to happen between you and the client.
Speaker A:Even just the little things like not being able to get into their software if needed.
Speaker A:And then you have to do two factor authorization.
Speaker A:And then what does two factor?
Speaker A:You know, there's so many things that can creep into actually getting something done.
Speaker A:And so that really can really affect your client delivery.
Speaker A:This constant state of running late for appointments.
Speaker A:I know a lot of times, if I have like a few minutes in between my appointments, I used to, like, get up and go do something or try to like, oh, I can just go, let me just go empty the dishwasher.
Speaker A:Let me go just do this.
Speaker A:Let me just run this.
Speaker A:Let me just go take the dog out for a walk, whatever it is.
Speaker A:But thinking in my head, like, these things will only take a few minutes.
Speaker A:And next thing you know, I'm showing up late to my next meeting because I really didn't have enough time to do that, but I was trying to jam one more thing in.
Speaker A:And you also know the ADHD brain is like, you don't just do one thing.
Speaker A:You don't just go empty the dishwasher.
Speaker A:You go empty the dishwasher.
Speaker A:And then, oh, by the way, let me take this out for dinner.
Speaker A:Wait, let me think about that.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:You know how this goes, right?
Speaker A:Like, it just.
Speaker A:It really starts to layer on and you end up doing a million things and you just don't really.
Speaker A:And then you run late and you just overbook yourself or whatever.
Speaker A:And so this also can show up for you if you're starting to get.
Speaker A:You get super frustrated when something that is supposed to be quick starts to turn into hours.
Speaker A:And I know this is a huge one for me, especially if I just want to log in, like, two factor authorization.
Speaker A:Love it for the security purposes of it.
Speaker A:But it is the one thing that sends me over the edge because it's like, to me, it just takes all away, all the time that I had, right?
Speaker A:And so you think, oh, I can just log in and do this, and next thing you know, you gotta go check your email or you gotta go check your phone, and if your phone's not in the same room because you forgot it, because you don't know where your phone is because you're ADHD and you left it somewhere, right?
Speaker A:And then that just turns into this whole big, long process, right?
Speaker A:And so that's where this can really start to show this frustration.
Speaker A:And things just starting to stretch into these hours and hours and hours when they don't really have to.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:And so this is really, really important, though, from a business perspective, because what I find happens is that it can break trust, it can create stress, it derails growth projects, you know, But I want to give you an example of this because we.
Speaker A:So a good friend of ours who is also our dog trainer, for years we've worked with her with multiple different dogs, probably for six, well, probably almost eight years now.
Speaker A:Seven, eight years, something like that.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:Anyways, she chronically is late now.
Speaker A:She's fellow ADHDer.
Speaker A:She might even be listening to this podcast.
Speaker A:But.
Speaker A:And this was years and years have gone on, right, where she runs literally, like, chronically late.
Speaker A:Time blindness is huge for her.
Speaker A:And my husband, who is not ADHD at all and is very linear, very divergent thinker, like, he just is, like, black and white.
Speaker A:This is the way it is.
Speaker A:There's nothing.
Speaker A:There's no reason for any of this.
Speaker A:Like, in his head, his aunt.
Speaker A:There's like, there's no reason for any of this, right?
Speaker A:And so we had an appointment with her for one of our dogs.
Speaker A:And of course, like, she was running late, whatever.
Speaker A:And he.
Speaker A:He said to her, or like, he said to me, he's like, I just think it is so frigging rude.
Speaker A:Like, it is so frigging rude that she doesn't respect my time enough to show up on time.
Speaker A:Like, right?
Speaker A:And so anyways, we're really good friends.
Speaker A:And so we had this conversation with her, and it was so interesting because she's like, I never really thought of it like that.
Speaker A:It has nothing to do with me not respecting your time.
Speaker A:I do respect your time.
Speaker A:And he's like, well, you wouldn't know it.
Speaker A:He's like, because you think nothing of showing up late.
Speaker A:Like, what if I have other plans?
Speaker A:What if I wanted to go do something?
Speaker A:What if I had this?
Speaker A:He's like, to me, it is just such a sign of disrespect that you just continue to think it's okay to show up late or to, you know, book your.
Speaker A:Your clients so close together, knowing damn well you don't have enough time in traffic to get there.
Speaker A:Whatever.
Speaker A:Like, he gets really.
Speaker A:Like, he was really pretty passionate about this, and he feels very strongly about this.
Speaker A:Trust me, when I make him run late, he does not have a lot of patience for this because, again, he's a divergent thinker.
Speaker A:There is just no reason for it.
Speaker A:And so, you know, and I. I don't know for a fact that other people that she had dealt with as far as clients, how it had affected her business, we don't know.
Speaker A:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:I'm sure it has in some ways.
Speaker A:I do know she's had to cancel some app just because she ran so late and people had other plans and whatnot.
Speaker A:But that's the thing, is it breaks this trust, right?
Speaker A:And it creates a lot of stress and it can derail growth projects.
Speaker A:And so Some people.
Speaker A:Here's the thing that you need to think about though is for years and years she said to me, I wonder how many other people feel this way but have never felt confident enough or felt comfortable enough to say something to me.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:And she's like, and now like, I'm so happy that you did.
Speaker A:Because I really did not realize how my behavior, my time blindness was, was truly affecting other people.
Speaker A:And so that is something that can happen to you is, you know, because we are so used to it, right?
Speaker A:Because the neurodivergent brain, the ADHD brain is so used to it, it's like, what's the big deal?
Speaker A:It's like 10 minutes or like we just get kind of programmed to where it's like, I don't really think anything of it.
Speaker A:This is just the way my life is.
Speaker A:This is just how I operate.
Speaker A:Like, it's fine.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:But you don't necessarily realize, like, are you slowly leaking trust by like these little five minute late, not doing, you know, whatever it is or missing a deadline?
Speaker A:I do know, even though I am neurodivergent, I will say if people miss deadlines, I, I don't have a lot of patience for that either.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:And so especially like, if it's just, you know, for what appears to be not a huge reason, aside from just lack of time management on your own.
Speaker A:So there's, there's that.
Speaker A:Okay, but let's talk about like, okay, great, Michelle.
Speaker A:Yes, I struggle with all this, but now what do I do about it?
Speaker A:So here's one of the things.
Speaker A:A couple things that I have done and a couple things that I have encouraged clients to do, to really try to accommodate for this.
Speaker A:Because the thing about it is, for the most of a part, and for many of us, you can't change this.
Speaker A:You can't change this time blindness, right?
Speaker A:Like we just read in that article, like there's a, there's medical science that proves that like the prefrontal cortex is playing a role in that.
Speaker A:And so you can't just like change your brain, right?
Speaker A:But you can train your brain.
Speaker A:So there's that.
Speaker A:That's really powerful way to look at it is like, how can I train my brain?
Speaker A:So a lot of times what I will do and why I am so passionate about this with working with clients is that 90% of the time, you guys put way too many things on your plate in one day and it is literally physically not possible.
Speaker A:Because I know for a fact things are going to take longer than you think they are.
Speaker A:So what I always, especially when it comes to client work, if you are a done for you service provider, this is my number one tip for you.
Speaker A:If you think something is going to take you one hour, I want you to schedule two hours for it, maybe even three hours for it, right?
Speaker A:I don't care what it is, I don't care if It's a small 15 minute task and you know you can get it done in 15 minutes, schedule yourself 30 minutes.
Speaker A:Because again, there's always going to be that thing, you know, the phone's going to ring, you're going to get distracted, whatever it is.
Speaker A:But double or triple your initial time estimates, okay?
Speaker A:And if you get done early, then you've scored extra time for the day to go do whatever the hell you want.
Speaker A:Go enjoy something, you know, go enjoy some free time.
Speaker A:Just have a little bit of downtime, maybe get in some of that breath work or meditation that you always put off.
Speaker A:Or maybe you just have time to work on another project because you've got this time estimated and you can actually get ahead of the game, right?
Speaker A:But like, overestimating your time is never a negative thing.
Speaker A:It really isn't, right?
Speaker A:Double or triple whatever you think something is going to take.
Speaker A:And I'm talking to myself here too, because I need to start, especially, you know, living in Florida, it's snowbird season coming up.
Speaker A:So everything that I used to think only was going to take 10 minutes, I really need to schedule 30 minutes.
Speaker A:Because first of all, it was never 10 minutes in the first place.
Speaker A:And now with traffic, because of the amount of snowbirds coming down, it's easily going to double, if not triple.
Speaker A:So give yourself time, right?
Speaker A:Like buffer that in.
Speaker A:Another thing that I do is most of the time with calls, I schedule 30 minutes in between.
Speaker A:I do have days where they're back to back.
Speaker A:And I will say I do run late on those.
Speaker A:So try to give yourself a buffer in between the calls so that you are not just constantly moving from one thing to the next to the next to the next to the next, right?
Speaker A:Like give yourself that time.
Speaker A:So double or triple your time estimates.
Speaker A:That's, I mean, that's a huge one.
Speaker A:That right there.
Speaker A:Will.
Speaker A:I was working with a client who was trying to finish up her website and she's like, I think it's only going to take me like, I don't know, maybe another four or five hours.
Speaker A:I was like, schedule whole day or schedule two four hours.
Speaker A:I said, because you know it's going to take you longer than four hours, right?
Speaker A:Especially because ADHD tends to be perfectionist.
Speaker A:You know, there's just so many things that come into play here.
Speaker A:So this is just such a simple workaround and it allows you to get more done and not feel stressed about it.
Speaker A:And when we're not stressed, we don't shut down.
Speaker A:We don't get into overthinking.
Speaker A:We don't.
Speaker A:But again, don't let that more time.
Speaker A:We talked about this on that other episode about more time equals less productivity.
Speaker A:Do not allow that time to be procrastination where it's like, oh, I've got two hours scheduled for this.
Speaker A:I know it's only going to take me 15 minutes.
Speaker A:I don't need to work on this right now.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:Like, you do really need to be mindful of how you schedule your time, but just always assume like whatever your assumption is, for how long a task is going to take, double or triple it.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:The other thing that's very, very helpful is just to use timers and task tracking.
Speaker A:I know that this is really not anything we love to do, right.
Speaker A:Because it's tedious work.
Speaker A:It's that little bit where it's like getting wrapped up in some of those details.
Speaker A:But like just track how much time something might take you.
Speaker A:So especially if you have a reoccurring task on your schedule.
Speaker A:One of the things that I know a lot of like ADHD years put off is their bookkeeping or their content creation or whatever it is.
Speaker A:Just track it, track it and see how much time does it really take.
Speaker A:Because sometimes things really don't take as long as we think, but we procrastinate on them because we think they're going to take a long time.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:But just use a timer and a task tracker.
Speaker A:I know, like, for me, I often think I can get podcasts recorded quickly because I'm like, the podcasts are only about 20, 25 minutes, but it usually takes me a couple tries.
Speaker A:Especially when I'm first.
Speaker A:Like when I first get on recording, I usually stumble over my words.
Speaker A:So I always have to start over a couple times and then, you know, I always have to get my outline ready and then find the outline.
Speaker A:Because a lot of times I outline all the episodes but I don't record them, which is really not a good use of my time because I then I have to go back and find the outlines.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:Get my head back in the game.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:So it's way more than a 20 minute episode.
Speaker A:It's, you know, a good 30 to 40 minutes per episode.
Speaker A:Especially then if I go in and edit them and all the things.
Speaker A:And so I need to be mindful of looking at my time, especially if I've got two or three, I want to record that I've got a good like 2 to 3 hour block set aside for that so that I'm not like running late, because I have done that before too.
Speaker A:I was like, oh, I got like a half hour.
Speaker A:I can bang out this podcast episode and then I'm on a roll.
Speaker A:And then next thing you know, the conversation's going long and I had a plate.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:So really just use a timer and track your time and really know, okay, so if you don't like the idea of doubling or tripling your time estimate because you know you're going to procrastinate or you know that's going to leave too much white space on your calendar, then track it and get accurate with it.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:If you don't want to just double it, then you've got to get accurate.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:And then reverse engineer your project.
Speaker A:Start from the deadline backwards.
Speaker A:This is another one that I do all the time.
Speaker A:Back when I worked in corporate and manufacturing, there was a tool that they teach called value stream mapping.
Speaker A:And value stream mapping is this exact thing you start kind of at the very end.
Speaker A:So like in manufacturing, the end was like, product goes out the door, but what happens to happen?
Speaker A:Actually, that's not even the end, Right?
Speaker A:The end is sending the invoice or getting paid.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:So it was like all those things, even that when you realize that is like, what is the actual end?
Speaker A:But when you have a deadline.
Speaker A:So this is specific to those that have client deliveries or, you know, again, like with my podcast, like, for.
Speaker A:I'm trying so hard to stay ahead of the game so that I'm not creating urgency for my assistant.
Speaker A:And all the other things of, like, when does.
Speaker A:When do these things need to be done?
Speaker A:And then how much time does whoever else need?
Speaker A:Especially if you have an assistant that helps you out, how much time do they need to get it done?
Speaker A:And then, you know, you can work backwards from there.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:And also taking into consideration life or waiting on clients, I know that that comes up a lot.
Speaker A:People are waiting on something or you're waiting to hear back, or there's time differences, especially for those that you.
Speaker A:Of you that work globally or nationally, there's time delays because of time zones and all different things.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:And so work with your deadline and then go backwards.
Speaker A:And I do this a lot, especially with those that want to launch or some like if you have a event or a master class or a workshop or something coming up and you want to launch it in three weeks, well, work from there backwards.
Speaker A:What needs to happen the day before?
Speaker A:What needs to happen a week before?
Speaker A:How much time do you need for promotion, right?
Speaker A:Like, reverse engineer it.
Speaker A:Don't start now and say, okay, I'm going to launch this masterclass in three weeks.
Speaker A:Here's all the things I need to do.
Speaker A:Because then you start to get kind of wrapped up in other things and things that maybe don't necessarily matter.
Speaker A:And this is where that time blindness can come in.
Speaker A:So when you work backwards, it's a very clear deadline and a very clear structure of when things need to be done.
Speaker A:And then you can budget in the time to make sure that you're getting them done.
Speaker A:Okay?
Speaker A:And so those are kind of my top three workarounds for, you know, time blindness.
Speaker A:I think everybody has to find what works for them.
Speaker A:But I think first and foremost, one of the most important things is just recognizing and accepting that this is something that you struggle with, right?
Speaker A:Or that this is something that is potentially a problem, right?
Speaker A:Because ignoring it doesn't help, right?
Speaker A:And being sitting here and saying, like, that's.
Speaker A:That doesn't apply to me.
Speaker A:Like, that doesn't help.
Speaker A:Like, there's no shame in it.
Speaker A:Like, again, like, we.
Speaker A:I read in that article in the beginning, like, it is a medical condition.
Speaker A:It affects the way the brain processes information.
Speaker A:So, like, don't feel bad about it, right?
Speaker A:Like, don't carry any shame or guilt about it.
Speaker A:Just accept it.
Speaker A:Accept it for what it is and figure out what do I need to do to change it.
Speaker A:What do I need to do to work with it?
Speaker A:How can I train my brain to work with this, right?
Speaker A:And what stop gaps do I need to put in play?
Speaker A:And a lot of it is just either putting in some white space in your calendar, right?
Speaker A:But not too much white space and.
Speaker A:Or just tracking and being realistic about it and being realistic that, like, you know what?
Speaker A:That is such bullshit for me to sit here and say, this is only going to take me five minutes when I know damn well it's going to take me a half hour, right?
Speaker A:This is zapier is one of those things for me.
Speaker A:It's like, oh, I'm just going to go in here and create this quick zap.
Speaker A:It never freaking works, right?
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:I'm not.
Speaker A:Zapier is not my zone of genius.
Speaker A:You know, by the time you do the testing and if you don't have Any test material for it to pull, then you have to create test material for it to pull, right?
Speaker A:Like, there's just always something.
Speaker A:There's always something.
Speaker A:So stop sitting there and kidding yourself saying, like, oh, I'm just going to do this real quick and say, like, is it really a quick thing?
Speaker A:No.
Speaker A:So what do I need to do and where do I need to put this so that I'm not going to create this cycle of stress and frustration and running late and bottleneck, et cetera.
Speaker A:And the first step is just accepting, like, it really is going to take you longer than 10 minutes or an hour or two hours, whatever the frig it is, right?
Speaker A:Like, just be honest with yourself.
Speaker A:Like, get used to catching yourself.
Speaker A:Get used to catching yourself going.
Speaker A:You know damn well that is not going to take that little time.
Speaker A:So let's just be frigging real about it, right?
Speaker A:And then keeping in mind that, like, this structure, especially like with doubling your time or working backwards and using timers and tasks, it's not restrictive.
Speaker A:I know it feels restrictive.
Speaker A:And I know that like, we.
Speaker A:We resist it for a reason because we do not like feeling restricted.
Speaker A:But in reality, it creates breathing room.
Speaker A:And I can tell you from my own life experience that not rushing, not being, like, not waiting until the last second, not feeling all that pressure, it really does make a big difference.
Speaker A:And it creates this incredible breathing room, and it creates this incredible space in your mind to be able to be creative for new ideas to flow into you, for you to, you know, just have bigger visions for things to fall in place, for things to.
Speaker A:To really flow with much more ease, right?
Speaker A:It does really create that.
Speaker A:But when your brain is constantly stressing and running and moving from one thing to the next to the next, there is no room for that creativity.
Speaker A:There is no room for that, for that bigger ideas, right?
Speaker A:And so don't fight this as much as you want to, because time really is not your enemy.
Speaker A:It's a massive resource, okay?
Speaker A:And so just being able to see it clearly is the first step to managing it, right?
Speaker A:That's it.
Speaker A:That's really the thing.
Speaker A:So just to wrap up a few action steps for you, track one of your reoccurring tasks this week.
Speaker A:So one of the things that I tracked, another example is my Sunday morning brew, which, the more I do that, the faster I get with it.
Speaker A:But it still inevitably takes me about an hour.
Speaker A:Like, even if I can get it done in less time, I budget an hour in because I either have to go pull a link or I want to Create a graphic or whatever it is, right?
Speaker A:Or I'm promoting something that I've yet to create, and so I have to create the said thing to actually promote it, right?
Speaker A:So track one reoccurring task, actual time, so that you can just start to be realistic about it.
Speaker A:And then for any new tasks that come in, until you have actual data and facts that tell you exactly what, how much time it takes.
Speaker A:And again, just because it only took you 10 minutes one time doesn't mean it's going to take you 10 minutes the next time.
Speaker A:Double your estimates, Just double it.
Speaker A:Give yourself the breathing room.
Speaker A:Give yourself the breathing room and then just go through and do a daily time audit just for awareness, right?
Speaker A:And one of the other things is just to understand, like, where did I let my time get derailed?
Speaker A:Where did I let myself get derailed?
Speaker A:Or get myself, you know, wrapped up in these rabbit holes that I did not need to get wrapped up in simply because it was a rabbit hole that I got myself wrapped up in, right?
Speaker A:Like, so just really be mindful of that.
Speaker A:Just daily or even weekly.
Speaker A:I mean, daily could be a lot, but I think just taking a few minutes at the end of the day and just kind of evaluating, like, where did I really use my time well, what took me longer, how am I doing with my to do list, that type of thing, right?
Speaker A:Like, if your to do list is 20 miles long, you're always going to run late, you're always going to run late, you're always going to run behind because it's too much.
Speaker A:You don't have enough time in the day, right?
Speaker A:So stop thinking you're superhuman and that you can just move at lightning speed, because we can't.
Speaker A:And life is life and business is business and processes are processes and systems are system and tech is tech, right?
Speaker A:Like, all of these things play a role.
Speaker A:It's not just you in getting things done, right?
Speaker A:There are other things that contribute to this that you cannot control.
Speaker A:So just being aware of it, being aware of that and being mindful of it, and just stop putting so much pressure on yourself.
Speaker A:Okay, so that's what you're working on this week.
Speaker A:This one.
Speaker A:If this resonated, please shoot me a text, send me a dm.
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Speaker A:None of you have that anyways.
Speaker A:But, like, shoot me a text either on any of the, the social platforms, but also to like, share this, right?
Speaker A:It's ADHD Awareness Month.
Speaker A:My goal is to create awareness for neurodivergent entrepreneurs.
Speaker A:So please share these episodes out there because you all have people in your audience, whether they are clients, prospects, just connections that are ADHD and are struggling because they feel like nobody is talking about these things.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:So please share out these episodes and with your audience to create a movement of awareness and acceptance for those neurodivergent entrepreneurs that are just kind of here in a lot of ways, struggling in silence.
Speaker A:Because we feel sometimes like, what is wrong?
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:What is wrong with me?
Speaker A:Why does this work for everybody else?
Speaker A:Nothing is wrong with you.
Speaker A:We're here to create awareness.
Speaker A:We're here to create these little workarounds so that we can truly use our ADHD for the superpower that it truly is.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:I love you.
Speaker A:I believe in you, and I'll talk to you soon.
