Going Paperless with ADHD

I've missed you guys! In this episode, I give you a glimpse as to where I've been the last like 9-10 months?! I've been busy recovering from autistic burnout, processing that diagnosis as well as building supports for that, and my hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome). If you're interesting in hiring a life coach for the new year, there are spots available now and in the new year. Start by scheduling yourself a totally free 90-min consult at this link, or by going to morgandodsoncoaching.com/consult Want free help? Join me on the call next month (always the 2nd Tuesday of the month at 2pm central - the next date is always published on the website) - put your email in the thing on the website and I'll send you the link and reminders ahead of time! (click here)

Deciding what you want to think and believe about yourself is the main tool and concept that will stop you from organizing your entire life, then rebounding back to where you started because you couldn't keep up with the systems you created. If your identity doesn't change to support the new results you create, you will ultimately snap back to that old software. Long-lasting results require a software update to your brain, so it thinks thoughts that support your results you worked so hard to create. See you inside for a deep dive into this life-changing concept that you can start applying right away. • Register for the free live coaching call on Tuesday, March 8th, 2022 (always the second Tuesday at 2) from 2:00-3:00 CDT (click here to register) or copy and paste: https://morgandodsoncoaching.ck.page/699b77e427 • Get on the email list: enter your email by clicking here, or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/subscribe • Interested in coaching? Book your free 90-minute consult call by clicking this link or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/consult • Website: morgandodsoncoaching.com • This week's quote: "Good habits can make rational sense, but if they conflict with your identity, you will fail to put them into action." -James Clear

Ahh, self doubt, a sneaky bitch. This week's episode will teach you how to overcome self doubt, so that you can finally go paperless, become digitally organized, and get to work creating amazing shit in the world. Spoiler: overcoming self doubt has a lot to do with allowing it to be there without trying to fix it. • Register for the free live coaching call on Tuesday, March 8th, 2022 (always the second Tuesday at 2) from 2:00-3:00 CDT (click here to register) or copy and paste: https://morgandodsoncoaching.ck.page/699b77e427 • Get on the email list: enter your email by clicking here, or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/subscribe • Interested in coaching? Book your free 90-minute consult call by clicking this link or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/consult • Website: morgandodsoncoaching.com • This week's quote: “And I knew exactly what to do. But in a much more real sense, I had no idea what to do.” -Michael Scott, The Office (Season 5, Episode 13, Stress Relief Part 1 and 2, around minute 9)

Taxes suck, ESPECIALLY when you struggle with executive dysfunction, or any other kind of neurodivergency. This episode will help you articulate all the possible struggles, obstacles, issues, hardships, complicated feelings, and all the resistance you have to doing or thinking about taxes (or even reaching out to hire a tax pro). Once you can articulate your experiences and obstacles, you can get to work on solving them, making systems that actually work for your brain, and in general, making taxes suck less. You've got this. See you inside. • Register for the free live coaching call on Tuesday, March 8th, 2022 (always the second Tuesday at 2) from 2:00-3:00 CDT (click here to register) or copy and paste: https://morgandodsoncoaching.ck.page/699b77e427 • Get on the email list: enter your email by clicking here, or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/subscribe • Interested in coaching? Book your free 90-minute consult call by clicking this link or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/consult • Website: morgandodsoncoaching.com • This week's quote: “The most important: Only have a real-time meeting if it deserves to be a meeting. If you need people to read a memo, send a memo. If you need students to do a set of problems, send the problems. If you want people to watch a speech or talk, then record it and email it to them. Meetings and real-time engagements that are worthy of conversations are rare and magical. Use them wisely.” -Seth Godin Recommended Episodes: • 34. How To Achieve Any Goal • 22. Time Awareness • 54. Why I divide my year up into trimesters (instead of quarters) • 49. Self-judgment • 51. How To Feel Your Feelings • 19. Perfectionism

Having desire for something is all the proof you need to believe that it's possible, and then you go and make it happen. Your true desires are there for a reason. There's a reason I don't want to be a professional athlete, but there IS a reason I have previously wanted to become a life coach. How do I know? Because I BECAME A LIFE COACH. Tune in to this episode to hear about ways your dreams are actually much more achievable than you think, just based on this one simple little thing called desire. • Register for the free live coaching call on Tuesday, March 8th, 2022 (always the second Tuesday at 2) from 2:00-3:00 CDT (click here to register) or copy and paste: https://morgandodsoncoaching.ck.page/699b77e427 • Get on the email list: enter your email by clicking here, or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/subscribe • Interested in coaching? Book your free 90-minute consult call by clicking this link or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/consult • Website: morgandodsoncoaching.com • This week's quote: "I don’t believe that there are average people. I think everyone’s extraordinary. I think the difference is people willing to do hard things get to experience how extraordinary they are." — Brooke Castillo Recommended Episodes: • 53. River of Misery • 56. Your Desire Gives You Direction

Have you ever taken your medication in the morning, having no idea how the day will go, just hoping for the best? But then end up having the day go nowhere close to how you thought it would in your head. This is miserable and frustrating. But I've got you! Listen to this episode to learn some ways to make sure you always get the most out of your meds and your brain, and make sure the day goes how you want it to (more often than not). See you inside! • Register for the free public pop-up coaching call on Tuesday, February 8th, 2022 (always the second Tuesday at 2) from 2:00-3:00 CDT (click here to register) or copy and paste: https://morgandodsoncoaching.ck.page/699b77e427 • Website: morgandodsoncoaching.com • Get on the email list: enter your email by clicking here, or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/subscribe • Interested in coaching? Book your free 90-minute consult call by clicking this link or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/consult Recommended Episodes: • 47. How To Make Your Meds Work For You • 52. "But I Don't Know How Long That Will Take"

Feeling solid in your own digital organization protocol has everything to do with why you have lots of unused productivity apps on your phone. In this episode, I unpack the reasons why it's common for ADHD-ers to impulsively download apps, why it makes sense we feel confused and overwhelmed by the whole process of digital organization, and I also help you define the next steps for FINALLY figuring out what works for you to create the effective systems you've always dreamed of in order to actually support your life instead of sucking your soul. See you inside! • Register for the free public pop-up coaching call on Tuesday, February 8th, 2022 (always the second Tuesday at 2) from 2:00-3:00 CDT (click here to register) or copy and paste: https://morgandodsoncoaching.ck.page/699b77e427 • Website: morgandodsoncoaching.com • Get on the email list: enter your email by clicking here, or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/subscribe • Interested in coaching? Book your free 90-minute consult call by clicking this link or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/consult Recommended Episodes: • 3. How to Create Your Paperless Protocol • 14. The Paperless Triad • 29. Taking Inventory + Deciding on your Core Tools

Y'all, your estrogen affects your ADHD symptoms whether or not you realize it. Tune in as I share some corrections from a previous podcast, and learn why you feel like Beyonce at one point in your menstrual cycle, and like a hot bag of garbage at another point. There IS an explanation, and there are so many ways to accommodate yourself throughout the hard times of the month, AND take advantage of the good times too. See you inside! • Register for the free public pop-up coaching call on Tuesday, February 8th, 2022 (always the second Tuesday at 2) from 2:00-3:00 CDT (click here to register) or copy and paste: https://morgandodsoncoaching.ck.page/699b77e427 • To learn more about coaching with me, get on the email list, or schedule a consult, visit my clean, easy to navigate website: morgandodsoncoaching.com • Get on the email list: enter your email by clicking here, or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/subscribe • Interested in coaching? Book your free 90-minute consult call by clicking this link or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/consult • Tracy Otsuka's Facebook Group - ADHD For Smart Ass Women (and her podcast by the same name) • Link to Morgan’s post about hormones/estrogen in the ADHD For Smart Ass Women Facebook Group (you'll need to join the group first - do that then come back and click this link) • Maisie Hill's Period Power Podcast Ep. 1: Understanding Your Menstrual Cycle • Maisie Hill's Book - Period Power • Additude article called “Women, Hormones, and ADHD” • 47. How To Make Your Meds Work For You • Link to the menstrual cycle hormones graph I found

You probably have thoughts about the new year that make you feel like sh*it, and you don't even realize yet that they are completely optional. "I should make big changes in my life," "I should set a big goal," or even "I have to start fresh" and "hit the ground running" are all optional, and I give you some new perspectives on what to do instead, if the neurotypical "expected" way of goals feels yucky this year. P.S. - I love impossible goals, the bigger the better. Do an impossible goal, if you WANT TO. But if it just so happens you don't want to? Both are perfectly amazing options. • Register for the free public pop-up coaching call on Tuesday, February 8th, 2022 (always the second Tuesday at 2) from 2:00-3:00 CDT (click here to register) or copy and paste: https://morgandodsoncoaching.ck.page/699b77e427 • To learn more about coaching with me, get on the email list, or schedule a consult, visit my clean, easy to navigate website: morgandodsoncoaching.com • Get on the email list: enter your email by clicking here, or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/subscribe • Interested in coaching? Book your free 90-minute consult call by clicking this link or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/consult

Knowing what you want + going after what you want are totally separate things. Luckily, we have a tool that can give us direction no matter what situation we're in, and it's always available to us. Enter: desire! Listen to this episode to find out how to get direction no matter how scrambled or overwhelmed or confused you may feel. • Register for the free public pop-up coaching call on Tuesday, January 11th, 2022 (always the second Tuesday at 2) from 2:00-3:00 CDT (click here to register) or copy and paste: https://morgandodsoncoaching.ck.page/699b77e427 • To learn more about coaching with me, get on the email list, or schedule a consult, visit my clean, easy to navigate website: morgandodsoncoaching.com • Get on the email list: enter your email by clicking here, or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/subscribe • Interested in coaching? Book your free 90-minute consult call by clicking this link or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/consult

Y'all. Some thoughts can sound nice and lovely on paper, but can sometimes actually cause a lot of pain, time wasted, lots of suffering, and loads of mental space spent with no upside, and no payoff whatsoever. This episode is all about questioning every thought (especially the ones that sound nice), because they might just be sneakily working against you. I dive deep into my thought that caused me trouble this Christmas present shopping season, and how "being a good gift giver" sounds good, but it actually made me spiral out into overwhelm, perfectionism, over-researching, and so so so much overthinking. Also, how I solved it. • Register for the free public pop-up coaching call on Tuesday, January 11th, 2022 (always the second Tuesday at 2) from 2:00-3:00 CDT (click here to register) or copy and paste: https://morgandodsoncoaching.ck.page/699b77e427 • To learn more about coaching with me, get on the email list, or schedule a consult, visit my clean, easy to navigate website: morgandodsoncoaching.com • Get on the email list: enter your email by clicking here, or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/subscribe • Interested in coaching? Book your free 90-minute consult call by clicking this link or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/consult • Related episodes: 19. Perfectionism 21. People Pleasing (unmentioned but also a goodie) 27. Who before How 50. Why B- work is more motivating than A+ work

Thinking of the year in terms of quarters hurts my brain. Rather than trying to squeeze my neurodivergent brain into a neurotypical box, I made up my own rules and it's been working beautifully ever since. Join me as I break down how I divide my year into three chunks, what intentions I set going into each one, and see how you can apply this concept to your life for the upcoming 2022 year. • Register for the free public pop-up coaching call on Tuesday, January 11th, 2022 (always the second Tuesday at 2) from 2:00-3:00 CDT (click here to register) or copy and paste: https://morgandodsoncoaching.ck.page/699b77e427 • To learn more about coaching with me, get on the email list, or schedule a consult, visit my clean, easy to navigate website: morgandodsoncoaching.com • Get on the email list: enter your email by clicking here, or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/subscribe • Interested in coaching? Book your free 90-minute consult call by clicking this link or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/consult

It's uncomfortable to believe something new, or to learn a new skill, similarly to how your muscles hurt after going to the gym. All it means is you're GROWING. Except, our brains really want to make the discomfort mean that something's gone terribly wrong, when in reality, we're perfectly on schedule to having stronger muscles or to gaining proficiency in a new skill we're learning. Knowing this can save you SO MUCH struggle and misery when you know discomfort is coming, and nothing's gone wrong. Tune into this episode as I teach you this concept, as well as give you a behind the scenes view into my recent drama and experience switching from Trello to Notion, as my primary project management app. Spoiler: Extremely relatable and entertaining brain drama ahead. • Register for the free public pop-up coaching call on Tuesday, January 11th, 2022 (always the second Tuesday at 2) from 2:00-3:00 CDT (click here to register) or copy and paste: https://morgandodsoncoaching.ck.page/699b77e427 • To learn more about coaching with me, get on the email list, or schedule a consult, visit my clean, easy to navigate website: morgandodsoncoaching.com • Get on the email list: enter your email by clicking here, or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/subscribe • Interested in coaching? Book your free 90-minute consult call by clicking this link or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/consult • "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." - Thomas Edison • Related episode: 14. The Paperless Triad

You might be spinning in a thought error without even realizing it. Luckily, the thought error your brain offers you of, "...but I don't know how long that will take, so therefore, I can't time block" is actually quite solvable. Tune into this episode to learn how to overcome this calendaring obstacle with a few small tweaks and get you experimenting, learning, and actually getting shot done faster than ever before. Let's go. • Register for the free public pop-up coaching call on Tuesday, December 14th, 2021 (always the second Tuesday at 2) from 2:00-3:00 CDT (click here to register) or copy and paste: https://morgandodsoncoaching.ck.page/699b77e427 • To learn more about coaching with me, get on the email list, or schedule a consult, visit my clean, easy to navigate website: morgandodsoncoaching.com • Get on the email list: enter your email by clicking here, or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/subscribe • Interested in coaching? Book your free 90-minute consult call by clicking this link or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/consult • This week's quote: "I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs." - Abolitionist, author, and runaway slave Frederick Douglass • Recommended episodes: 10. Time Blocking 1.0 15. Evaluations 22. Time Awareness 42. Thought Errors 37. Confusion 1.0 49. Self-judgment

Developing and practicing the skill of feeling your feelings is actually a superpower, if there ever was one. It can often feel ambiguous and vague about what to do with these feelings that showed up strongly out of nowhere, but tune in to this episode as I break down exactly how to process an emotion in a way the feels constructive and healthy vs. urgent, trying to run away from the feeling to get rid of it, and actually making it feel stronger whenever you resist it. This is a for sure don't miss episode, see you inside! • Register for the free public pop-up coaching call on Tuesday, December 14th, 2021 (always the second Tuesday at 2) from 2:00-3:00 CDT (click here to register) or copy and paste: https://morgandodsoncoaching.ck.page/699b77e427 • To learn more about coaching with me, get on the email list, or schedule a consult, visit my clean, easy to navigate website: morgandodsoncoaching.com • Get on the email list: enter your email by clicking here, or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/subscribe • Interested in coaching? Book your free 90-minute consult call by clicking this link or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/consult • This week's quote: "What you resist persists." -Carl Jung

Aiming for a perfect outcome seems like it would be motivating. Except, when you obviously don't hit it, it feels de-motivating because you're "not there yet, can't release it because it's not good enough", and none of your work ever sees the light of day. It seems counterintuitive to aim for doing less-good work, work that gets you an 80%, a B-, but it actually makes you get MORE done, AND it's more motivating, because it makes you want to go do more stuff. B- work that gets released is better than A+ work that never sees the light of day. Sound fun? Let's dive in, together, on this episode. • Register for the free public pop-up coaching call on Tuesday, December 14th, 2021 (always the second Tuesday at 2) from 2:00-3:00 CDT (click here to register) or copy and paste: https://morgandodsoncoaching.ck.page/699b77e427 • To learn more about coaching with me, get on the email list, or schedule a consult, visit my clean, easy to navigate website: morgandodsoncoaching.com • Get on the email list: enter your email by clicking here, or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/subscribe • Interested in coaching? Book your free 90-minute consult call by clicking this link or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/consult • This week's quote: "To do nothing at all, is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual." -Oscar Wilde

Self-judgment not only feels like shit, but also prevents us from solving the problem we want to solve. It's a huge rip-off. Getting to compassion and understanding your reasons for doing the thing you didn't want to do feels challenging and new (especially if you've never practiced it on yourself before), but it at least gets you somewhere, and is the only thing that will actually solve your problem. Yay! Tune in to learn how to use compassion as a tool to literally solve ANY problem. Let's go! • Register for the free public pop-up coaching call on Tuesday, December 14th, 2021 (always the second Tuesday at 2) from 2:00-3:00 CDT (click here to register) or copy and paste: https://morgandodsoncoaching.ck.page/699b77e427 • To learn more about coaching with me, get on the email list, or schedule a consult, visit my clean, easy to navigate website: morgandodsoncoaching.com • Get on the email list: enter your email by clicking here, or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/subscribe • Interested in coaching? Book your free 90-minute consult call by clicking this link or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/consult • This week's quote: “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take. Wayne Gretzky.” - Michael Scott (The Office) • Tracy Otsuka's Facebook Group - ADHD For Smart Ass Women

Caring for your email inbox is a lot like showering regularly. You don't shower once "really good", and then not have to shower again for a month. You're always going to be getting emails and other information coming into your life, so you need to adjust to accommodate for that steady flow IN, as well as making sure there's a steady flow going OUT as well. Keeping emails in your inbox without them flowing out is a lot like continuing to eat and never pooping. If you're having email troubles, or have tons of emails cluttering your inbox, there's likely a problem, breakdown, backlog, or area of congestion within another one of your systems, usually in project management/workflows/task management, reference systems, or even calendaring. Tune in to learn where you need to focus in order to solve your email clutter for the last time. See you inside! • Register for the free public pop-up coaching call on Tuesday, December 14th, 2021 (always the second Tuesday at 2) from 2:00-3:00 CDT (click here to register) or copy and paste: https://morgandodsoncoaching.ck.page/699b77e427 • To learn more about coaching with me, get on the email list, or schedule a consult, visit my clean, easy to navigate website: morgandodsoncoaching.com • Get on the email list: enter your email by clicking here, or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/subscribe • Interested in coaching? Book your free 90-minute consult call by clicking this link or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/consult • This week's quote by James Clear, "The most useful form of patience is persistence. Patience implies waiting for things to improve on their own. Persistence implies keeping your head down and continuing to work when things take longer than you expect."

This week's episode is JAM PACKED with useful information and best practices for testing and perfecting your ADHD medications, and figuring out your exact right cocktail of ingredients to manage your ADHD and excel. You'll want to listen once all the way through, then come back with a notepad and take some detailed notes. Let's go! • Register for the free public pop-up coaching call on Tuesday, November 9th, 2021 (second Tuesdays at 2) from 2:00-3:00 CDT (click here to register) or copy and paste: https://morgandodsoncoaching.ck.page/699b77e427 • To learn more about coaching with me, get on the email list, or schedule a consult, visit my clean, easy to navigate website: morgandodsoncoaching.com • Get on the email list: enter your email by clicking here, or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/subscribe • Interested in coaching? Book your free hour-long consult call by clicking this link or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/consult • This week's quote by James Clear, "The most useful form of patience is persistence. Patience implies waiting for things to improve on their own. Persistence implies keeping your head down and continuing to work when things take longer than you expect." • Tracy Otsuka's Facebook Group - ADHD For Smart Ass Women (and her podcast by the same name) • Maisie Hill's Period Power Podcast Ep. 1: Understanding Your Menstrual Cycle • Maisie Hill's Book - Period Power • Other podcast I forgot to mention: Ep #17: Stress Response Cycle - Feminist Wellness Podcast by Victoria Albina

You can have relationships with all sorts of things. Not just people, and certainly not just in the context of a romantic relationship or a friendship. Your relationships are just your thoughts you have about the other person or the other thing, and in this week's episode, I dive in to my relationship with a piece of hardware/technology that I would like to improve, so then I get a different result. All it takes is a willingness to take a look at our thoughts, and give ourselves the space to decide, if we truly can think anything we want about something, what would you want to think and feel? The limit is the sky. • Register for the free public pop-up coaching call on Tuesday, November 9th, 2021 (second Tuesdays at 2) from 2:00-3:00 CDT (click here to register) or copy and paste: https://morgandodsoncoaching.ck.page/699b77e427 • To learn more about coaching with me, get on the email list, or schedule a consult, visit my clean, easy to navigate website: morgandodsoncoaching.com • Get on the email list: enter your email by clicking here, or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/subscribe • Interested in coaching? Book your free hour-long consult call by clicking this link or copy and paste: https://www.morgandodsoncoaching.com/consult • This week's quote by Hal Elrod (Author of The Miracle Morning): "The moment you take 100% responsibility for everything in your life is the same moment you claim your power to change anything in your life. Responsibility does not equal blame. Blame means who's at fault. Responsibility means who's committed to improving a situation."