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Quint just makes getting dressed feel easier and for my brain, that's everything. Refresh your spring wardrobe with quince. Go to quince.com I have ADHD for free shipping and 365 day returns. Now available in Canada too. That's quince.com IhaveADHD. Welcome to the I have ADHD podcast where it's all about education, encouragement and coaching for adults with adhd. I'm your host Kristin Carter and I have adhd. Let's chat about the frustrations you humor and challenges of adulting relationships. Working and achieving with this neurodevelopmental disorder. I'll help you understand your unique brain, unlock your potential, and move from point A to point B. Hey, what's up? This is Kristen Carter and you are listening to the I have ADHD podcast. I am medicated, caffeinated, regulated and ready to roll. Hello. Hello. We are talking about something really fun today, and I'm a little scared because every time I even just mention using AI or ChatGPT, people come for me in the comments. But I am sharing with you today the ways that I've been using ChatGPT or AI, my preferred AI. I kind of go between ChatGPT and Claude to support my life, to support my brain. And I'm kind of a late adopter, but I think that this has the potential to be really helpful to you too. So we're gonna dive right in. Get in here. Adhd. We've got a lot to talk about today and I'm just gonna get started because it's a lot, but I have been using ChatGPT a little bit. A little bit. And like I said, I'm kind of a late adopter. Uh, I have a couple friends that have been using it much longer than me and have been saying, hey, you should use AI. And I'm like, nah, I'm a little scared. It feels a little weird. I want to make sure that I'm producing all of my own content. I'm not really sure that this is a good idea for me. However, in the last, I would say six months to a year, I've incorporated it into my life in small ways and it has made a really big difference. And I don't want to gatekeep. I don't want to not tell you when something is really supportive for an ADHD brain. And so we're going to go over the ways in which I think AI can be really, really helpful for the ADHD brain. Please understand that I don't know a whole lot about it. I just know the ways that it supported me and the things that I've heard from clients in ways that it supported them and. And the ways that I've implemented it either into my every. I wouldn't say everyday life, but like into my life, and that it's really taken a big load in some ways off of my plate, and I want you to have the ability to do that too. So one of the things that AI can be really helpful with is reducing cognitive load. And those of us with ADHD are carrying around this gigantic weight of stuff in our brains. And it can be very, very, very overwhelming because our brains are constantly juggling tasks and emotions and sensory input and time awareness and management and memory and all of the things that we need to get done for our work, for our job, for our kids, for ourselves, for our partner, for our family, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. It's exhausting. It's exhausting. And so what I have been finding useful. And I'm going to talk about ChatGPT. Like I said, I kind of go between ChatGPT and Claude. Those are two different AI options. And I know there are differences in like OpenAI and like, I don't really know all of the specifics. So I would tell you to just tread carefully and tread lightly and maybe do a little research into what feels the best to you. But what ChatGPT has helped me with is organizing my thoughts, simplifying my decisions, helping me to prioritize and structure my next steps. It's almost like having sort of a personal assistant or a frontal lobe that you can rely on that is really, really supportive for those of us whose frontal lobe struggles. Like, if you have adhd, that means your frontal lobe is affected. For many of us, we have deficient executive function skills. Now, executive function includes prioritizing, planning, memory, working memory, the ability to regulate emotions, the ability to organize. And ChatGPT or your preferred AI can actually help with that. It can free up mental energy and give you more space and more structure for actually living your life. So in my opinion, in my opinion, it's been really, really supportive. And I think that it is so great for adults with ADHD to use cautiously because it is so accessible, it's free. It is like having this free, supportive frontal lobe that is always available 24, 7. It can function as an external executive helper, support system functioner. It can, it can function as an emotional regulation tool. It can function as a communication and like a tone translator, which I often use it for. And it can give you real time scaffolding to help you to follow through. It's not perfect. It's not ever to be used as a replacement for actual ADHD treatment, therapy, coaching, medical advice, any of that, of course, but it is a really accessible support system and it's available in the exact moments that you need it. It is available to you 24 7. You can hop on AI at 2am and have a whole conversation that can help you work through some complicated brain stuff. And when it is used, well, like I said, it's always accessible. It's immediate and there's a very low barrier to support. Many of you listening have huge barriers to getting support. Some of you are undiagnosed and waiting for a diagnosis. Some of you have a diagnosis, but you don't have access to treatment. Some of you are treated, but you don't have access to therapy or coaching. And so this tool, when used with caution, can be extremely, extremely helpful because help is expensive, help can be delayed, or it can be 100% unavailable to some of you. And that's not something to dismiss. Like, that's a big deal. That is, that, that's really, really difficult. And so I want us to take that seriously and understand that for many people, AI is a wonderful convenience. It can be a really great support for this disability. And yes, ADHD is a disability. You may also think of it as your superpower. That's great for you, but it, it comes with so many things that make life harder and more difficult. And, and AI gives you a way to access functioning that others, like typical humans, take for granted. And it can be a bridge. It can help you bridge between your intention and your action. Last week we talked about, like, the weekend and how hard it is to have a weekend where you feel like, oh, I, I rested well, I got things done that I wanted to get done. I connected with friends and family. I really took care of myself and set myself up for the week. If we think about using AI, your preferred AI, whatever that may be, if we think about using that in terms of the weekend where you maybe do a brain dump and you, you list out all of the things that you think you should do over the weekend and you say, like, how many of these are actually possible? What is realistic that I use ChatGPT for that quite a bit. Here's the list of things I want to get done. What's actually realistic here? What do you estimate would be how long it would take for me to get these done? That is a very helpful and useful way to be using AI. So I know that there are definitely people who, who push back and I understand that there's like an ethical conversation to have around this topic. I, I, like I said, I don't get into the weeds a whole lot. But if you think of AI not as being perfect, not as being a replacement for treatment, but just as a support, then even though there are valid concerns and I do share some of them, I want you to understand that this is not about replacing thinking, it's about supporting executive function. And for ADHD brains, that can be the very difference, the small difference between being stuck and getting moving. And my gosh, do we need help with that. We need so much help with that. Because ADHD is not a disorder of not knowing what to do. We know exactly what to do, but we struggle to prioritize what to do first, what steps to take and how to get actually moving and take action. And that is something that I'm going to say. ChatGPT, because that's the one that I use most often, can be really, really helpful with. So there are a couple options that you might want to look into, and they're all a little bit different. And I will just say that I will kind of hop between Chat and Claude, but there's ChatGPT, Claude, and Google Gemini, and, uh, Perplexity is another one, and then Microsoft Copilot. So all of those are different options. If you want to, you can research them. If you don't want to, I suggest starting with either Chat or Claude. Um, but I've heard good things about Perplexity as well. And the way that I use it the most is I brain dump into the chat box and I'm just like, here's everything that's on my mind, and I just. I dump everything out. So I just clear the clutter, like, that's in my brain. So much clutter in my brain. So let's say, let's take last week's episode about Saturdays. I just dump out everything that I want to get done, everything that I think I should get done. All of the. Should all of the kids, all of, like, here are my core values, but I don't really know which tasks are going to align with the core values. And I also don't really understand how long these things are going to take me. Okay. And what then I ask it to do is prioritize these items, like, take out. Take my brain dump and prioritize it and help me to understand how long things will take, what is realistic for me to get done today. Because ADHD brains tend to hold everything at once. All our tasks, all our ideas, all our obligations, all our worries. It all feels urgent. But when you can dump it into chat and say, like, I'm just gonna dump this all out and then help me organize this into must do today, this week can wait, not important. So it can give you categories, like, here's what you need to get done today. Here's, you know, like, what you can get done this week and how long it'll take you. Here are the things that can wait, and here's what you should just cross off your list because it's not important now. Of course you don't have to obey it, you don't have to do what it says to do. But it's really helpful to be able to have it organized in front of you into different categories. Then you can ask it what are my top three priorities and what are, what's the first step for each of them? And it will list it out. And here's the best thing. If you tell your preferred AI that you have ADHD and I like to remind it, keep in mind I have adhd, it is going to break things down for you in a way that's really simple and supportive. I promise like that I can promise because I've done it and in it works. It's so, so amazing. So that's the, that's like the most supportive way that I've learned to use AI is hey, I have adhd. I'm really overwhelmed right now. I've got a ton in my brain. I'm going to dump it out to you, help me prioritize and know what I need to focus on. And my goodness, it is so, so helpful with that. The next way that I like to use it and this is like if Greg's not available, if my sister's not available, if my co regulators are not available, I like to take my big emotions to ChatGPT. Now I am not saying that it is my therapist or my coach. It's not. I have a therapist. I have a coach. I'm very lucky to have a lot of external support but sometimes in the moment I need like a way to bounce a big feeling and know whether or not like I'm being dramatic. Does that make sense? Like am I, am I being dramatic here? And so I will type in like I'm spiraling. Help me reality check this. Here's what's going on. What am I in the wrong here? Or help me. I'll do this a lot and this is my next, this is my next point. But I will also like take a slack message or an email or like even a phone message that I get and I'll pop it into chat and I'll say like I don't know how to respond to this and it will literally help me to craft a response that then I can tweak to make more of my own but it will help me to respond without a ton of emotion. One of the prompts that I like to give when I'm spiraling is like I'm Spiraling. Here's what's going on. What is a grounded way to think about this? So it gives your nervous system like this pause. It's that pause moment that we're all looking for. Because what happens so often for adults with ADHD is there's a stimulus and an immediate response. So I get an email and then I respond and react right away instead. Instead of what is so important, which is taking that moment of pause and reflection before reacting in a way that I'm not proud of. Because how often are you reacting in ways that you're not proud of? So literally you can like be in an, in a text thread with someone and then be like, wait a second, I'm going to take this into chat and I'm going to type out like, they said this, I said this, they said this, I said this. What is a grounded way for me to think about this? And it will help you to process it in real time and de escalate the situation. It gives your nervous system that pause and it can help you to bring your thinking brain back online. So using it for emotional regulation support, especially if emotional regulation is really difficult for you, that can be so supportive. You can use this in real time during a meeting. Like if you're in a group meeting, like everybody's cameras are on zoom and you are literally in the middle of a meeting and you're typing in like, my boss said this. It will give you immediate feedback. It will help you to think through in real time how to respond. The third way that I often use AI, this is a really big one for me, is interpreting tone and responding in a like, professional and regulated manner. How often do you get an email where you're just like, I don't really know what they mean or are they being rude or what, what, what do they actually want from me here? I don't even know. You can copy and paste that into chat and this is a game changer. Especially if you have rejection sensitivity, especially if you are prone to go from zero to a hundred emotionally. Because so many of our struggles come from misreading tone, from assuming the worst, from reacting, reacting impulsively then to our assumption of the worst, or just not knowing how to respond. How many emails or messages, like, I don't know if your company uses Slack or whatever the case may be, but how many things have you just left to sit in your inbox for days or weeks or months because you just don't know how to respond? I don't even know what to say back to this you can literally copy and paste that into your preferred AI and say, I don't know how to respond, what do you suggest? Or here's how I want to respond, but that will definitely make me an asshole and I don't want to be mean. So how do I respond in a way that, that clearly communicates my boundaries without being mean? I'm telling you, for me, this has been probably the most supportive way that I've used it because I tend to internally fly off the handle, assume the worst, be very rejection sensitive, and often will misinterpret things that people are saying or interpret them in a way that maybe they don't even mean. And so to be able to pop something into chat and say, what? What do you gather from this? What are they trying to tell me? What is the biggest takeaway here? And how can I respond in a way that, you know, like, is clear and kind, but doesn't make it so that I'm over giving? That is so, so, so helpful. So prompts could be like, what is the tone of this message? Or I'm feeling really upset by this email. Am I overreacting? Or what do, what are they actually trying to say? And then help me write a professional response. Or help me say this, I've done this before where I have just ranted blah, blah blah, like here's what I would want to say back. And then my prompt is help me to say this without sounding defensive or help me to communicate this without being a jerk. Or rewrite this so that I don't sound mean, but I'm still being honest. I did that recently with an email to my child's school and I had some concerns and when I wrote it out, I actually wrote it into ChatGPT. Here are all of my concerns. And I didn't hold back. I, I was like very honest and emotional and I just wrote it on. Da da da da da. I was just like, I was raging, okay? I was raging and I wrote it all out and I said, how do I communicate the main points and the spirit of all of what I've just written, but in a professional way that does not demean anyone and is not like mean? And my gosh, it really sends back responses that I'm like, oh yes, that's what I'm trying to say. That is, that is exactly what I'm trying to communicate. Just without all of the, shall we say, assholery, you know what I'm saying? Like, just without all of the emotion and the defensiveness and the anger. Because sometimes you write an email to the school and you're a little angry, but you're not. You know, I don't actually want to send that one. I do want to be clear and I do want to communicate and I do want my concerns to be heard and. But I know if I'm just an angry parent writing an email that people are going to roll their eyes and they're not really going to give my child what they need. I also used it recently because I have a neurodivergent son who's going on a trip with the school and they're going to be away for an entire week. And I just told chat like, here are my son's struggles, here's what's happening on the trip. I don't even know what support to ask for, but I feel like he's going to need some support. What do you suggest? It was so helpful. It gave me like three very clear things. Ask for this, ask for this, ask for this. I was like, oh my gosh, yes, thank you, thank you so much. That's exactly what he needs. So it can be really, really, really, really helpful. It can help you to communicate all of your rage and all of your concerns and all of your needs in a clear, neutral, non emotional response is just absolutely wonderful. So it, it helps you to bridge the gap between what you feel and how you want to communicate because those are usually two different things. I'm feeling ragey, I'm feeling, or I'm feeling anxious, or I'm feeling worried, but here's what I actually want to communicate. Hi, my son needs some support. We would like to request this, this, this and this. Thank you. Right, please get back to me at asap. That's really the spirit of what I want to communicate, not all of my rage. So it can be really exceedingly helpful with that. Another way that I use CHAT is to help me make decisions without getting stuck. Because as someone with adhd, I love to overthink. I love to overthink and under decide. Let me know if you resonate with that. I love to overthink and under decide. And so you can type into chat like, here's the decision I'm trying to make, here's why I want to do it, here's why I don't want to do it. I, I don't know what to do. Help me to choose between these two based on my values. You can even type in my values. I evaluate this, this, this and this. Or give me a quick decision like what do you think is the best idea here or here are 17 options that I'm trying to sort through. Pare this down for me and limit it to three options. What what should I really be choosing between it Again, it doesn't have to be perfect. It's just like an external processor that you can bounce ideas off of, that can chat with you in real time and help you to make decisions, help you to cut down on overwhelm, help you to solidify your values and your priorities. And it really, really can help you reduce mental clutter and build some self trust. Like oh yes, that is actually what I want to do. This is actually like a values based on decision. This episode is sponsored by AG1. If you have ADHD, you probably know this pattern. You get motivated, you build a whole routine and then one small schedule change and everything falls apart. That's been my experience with health habits for years. 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Help me to prioritize them and make it systematic and put time estimations next to every single one. It is I, I hesitate to say how much I love it because again, some of y' all have come for me when I've talked about it in the past, where I've just like mentioned it in the past, but I can't even describe in these, like, very basic ways how helpful it's been for me. Even in, like, I write all of my content for work, but even in, like, hey, help me create a podcast pitch for this guest that I really want to get on the show, or, you know, what should I say to my employee who, whatever. Like, I've definitely used that before too. Like, I'm, I'm struggling with this thing with this employee. I'm not really sure what to do because I really love them. But also I have this, like, requirement here. How do I write? How do I communicate this to them in a way that sets clear expectations but is still kind and supportive and professional? Oh my gosh, it's so, so helpful. It can really help you to be an external prefrontal cortex for planning, prioritizing decisions. It can really help you with emotional regulation. Again, it's not a replacement for a real person. It's not. However, real people are not always available at like 9:30am on a Tuesday. Like, people have jobs, people have kids, people have lives. And so to be able to say, like, okay, I don't have therapy until, you know, the end of the week, but I'm struggling with this thing. Help me to think through this clearly and calmly. That's so important. And then it's like your neurodivergent translator. It can help you with tone and communication and understanding. Like, what did they mean by this? And how should I be feeling about this? And help me to even figure out how I'm feeling about it. It's so powerful for adhd. A couple other ways that I've personally used AI, I've used it to create a simple ADHD friendly workout plan for myself. That's been great. Help me to create. So I want to get stronger because I'm not strong. I really want to build muscle. But right now I don't have the ability to like go to a class. And that's really the best thing. Thing for me is like showing up somewhere and go to a class. But with my kids schedule I've already tried to plan now it, it's not going to work right now. Maybe in the summer when the seasons change and I'm not so like scheduled around my kids maybe, but I have a couple weights at home. And so I said like my goal is to get stronger. I don't want to burn out. I only have about 15 to 20 minutes. Create a simple ADHD friendly workout plan for me. And it did. And it's great. And I've used it twice. Only twice. But I'm gonna use it. I'm gonna use it today. I'm gonna use it today. Another way that I've used it is to like, help me meal prep, like meal plan. I hate meal planning. I hate it. But to be able, like, it can store things for you. So like help me to. So first of all, I said it can store things for you. So one of the things that you can do is pop all of your like recipes in there, all of the regular things that you and your family eat. And then you can just say like, what should we eat this week? And it will pull from the things that you've already popped in there. But let's say this is your first time and you've never used chat before. For food. You can list the ingredients in your house. Like, here's what we have on hand. Give me three ideas of what I can make that is so helpful. Or create a meal plan for this week using these different ingredients. So helpful. Like think about the mental load that that solves for you. I already told you that I helped that it helps me write an email to the school. I've done that many, many times over the last year. Like, help me write an email to the school. So maybe it's like the principal, or maybe it is a guidance counselor, or maybe it is a teacher. And it's like, here are my concerns. I want to communicate this in a way that is respectful. So help me write it professionally. Okay? So I list out my concerns. I even list out how I feel, what I'm angry about, what I'm upset about. But like, help me to write this in a way that is respectful. Because your girl doesn't want to be respectful. I don't. I want to be mean. I really do. Another thing that I did recently that was so helpful. I applied to speak at an academic conference and I took my own intellectual property. So I did not have CHAT create anything for me that was not my own. But I took a chapter of my book, a whole chapter, I copied it, I pasted it into chat, and I said, from this chapter, help me to create a summary to, to use in this application for an academic conference. And then they wanted an abstract. I don't even know what an abstract is, but guess what? CHAT knows what it is. So I was like, help me create a 500 word abstract from my own intellectual property. Right? Like, I wrote the chapter, I took the chapter, I popped it into chat, and I gave it the prompt, create a 500 word abstract from this chapter. It did. It was amazing. Um, I had already, like in the chapter, like footnoted. Well, my research assistant did this, but footnoted like all of the sources. So then I was like, make a list of five sources used in this chapter. And it listed it out in APA format. I don't even really know what APA format is, but it did it for me. So, like, it was my work, it was my intellectual property. The work was already completed. I. But it helped me to break it down into the different requirements for this academic conference application. Um, I just feel like I, I've really thought this through and I've talked to a couple colleagues about it because I've talked about, like, where's the line between using ChatGPT as a tool and using it as a crutch? So as a crutch would be like, hey, like, make up a topic for me and make up, you know, the ideas for me. That's, in my opinion, using it in a way that would not be ethical for me. Right? Like if I didn't have an idea for this academic conference and I was like, create something for me. Well, that would be unethical because that's not actually my work. But if I take my work that I've already done, I've already written this entire chapter of the book. It was on self compassion. I have a whole book, a whole chapter of my upcoming book on self compassion and why self hatred does not work and it does not improve our relationships. And so that's what the chapter was about. It's called A Soft place to land. I can't wait for you to read this book. Okay, anyway, so I took that chapter. It was about 5,000 words of my own words. I popped it into chat and then I had from that intellectual property, okay, break it down into an Abstract into a summary, into the list of sources. Boom, boom, boom. So it was my work, but Chat just summarized it for me. It was amazing. So that's using it as a tool, not as like an idea generator. Okay. And again, I use it often to help interpret tone. The tone of an email, the tone of a Slack post, the tone of even, like, here's what so and so said to me. I don't really know how to interpret it. What do you think they mean? That's really, really. Oh my gosh, it's been so supportive. Now I again, like, how are you doing? Do you still like me? Are we still good? I know that there is pushback on AI. I know there's like concern that it's going to take over the world. In my opinion, it's already here. It's already doing its thing. So we ADHDers might as well use it as a tool to be helpful to us. We might as well use it as a tool. Here's where it does get sticky. We don't like. It can obviously make mistakes and it can obviously mislead people. And so you want to make sure that you're still using your brain. You want to make sure that you're not using it as a substitute for medical advice, for therapy, for coaching, for professionalized support. Right. But if you're not using it in place of all of that, but just as a supportive tool, that can be really useful. It shouldn't replace professionals. It shouldn't replace critical thinking. It shouldn't replace your own intellectual property. We don't want humans to be. I heard recently that there was this. Or there is this scam on Amazon where people are just like writing books with AI and then publishing them, quote unquote, and selling them on Amazon. That's an issue. Don't be dumb. We don't want to do that. We still want to be able to think critically. But can we use it as a tool to support what we are already doing? Ooh, I think we can. I really do think we can. There are of course some, like, privacy and data concerns. It's really interesting conversation around that. What I've read is that it deletes. Like, it doesn't store after 30 days or I. I don't really know. You're going to. You're going to need to do your own research on that. Like maybe don't tell it all of your deepest, darkest secrets. And don't, you know, try to, like, do anything nefarious in there. Please, let's not do that. There's definitely an issue around safety and that kind of thing. Like anything that you don't want on the Internet or like people knowing maybe don't type into there. So, like, I, I actually think that's a good thing because there's some accountability there. I, I don't really know. I just like, let's all be cool and let's all be safe and let's all be good citizens. Shall we? Shall we? Shall we? But if you use it in an ethical way, if you're using it to support what you're already doing, if you're using it as an externalized executive function or an externalized frontal lobe, then what you get is accessible, free for the most part, immediate support. And it's a very low entry point. Anyone can use it. You can go right now to your Google and go chatgpt.com or Claude AI, I think is what it is and get support immediately. And I would love if you just gave it a try where you were like, okay, I'm just going to brain dump everything that's in my brain right now. Here's what's on my mind. Here's what I'm stressed about. I have adhd. Help me to prioritize what's most important and just see what happens. That could be very, very helpful if you're a mom with little kids. I have the afternoon with my kids. It's raining. I don't really know what to do. Suggest four games that we could play together. If you have a garage full of junk, type in, I want to clean out my garage. It's so overwhelming, I don't even know where to start. Here are some of the categories of things in there. Give me a plan that will work for my ADHD brain. Like, those are just very simple, easy prompts. I have these seven ingredients in my pantry right now and I have no idea what to cook for my family for dinner. Suggest three different recipes that I could make in 30 minutes or less. Like, it will do it for you. It's crazy and crazy. It will do it for you. And in a world where help is often delayed, it's not available exactly when you need it, or help is expensive, or it's just not available. This is not something to dismiss. This is something to take seriously. This is support that could really, really be useful to you. One of the things I did recently is my kid was stuck on a project for his sixth grade science class. Totally stuck. He's supposed to create an invention that solves a pollution problem, but an invention that had never been created before. And he was watching all of his classmates, like, move on in the. In the. Projecting and make progress. And he was full of anxiety. He had an idea, and then his teacher was like, no, that already exists. And then he had another idea, and his teacher was like, that's not good enough. And then he had another idea, and he. He was too scared to even tell his teacher what it was. And so I was like, let's just ask Claude what would be a great idea for this. And we. I. First of all, I told Claude it cannot exist in the marketplace, and it gave me things that existed in the marketplace. So, like I said, it is not always accurate, and you do have to test it. And then I typed back, these ideas already exist. And it's so annoying. It's so patronizing. It's like, oh, Kristen, good catch. You're right. These dudes. It's so. It can be very annoying, so be on the lookout for that. You're right, Kristen. Great catch. These. These ideas do already exist. But eventually, and it was very easy, it took, like, three minutes, we went back and forth, and it suggested a really great idea. And guess what? It helped my kid to get unstuck in his science class. And now he is thriving. He is thri. He came home and he was like, we. It worked. I did a great job. He loved my idea. I get to use it. Amazing. So it can be helpful, literally, for the whole family. It's just a really great sounding board. It's a really great way to outsource some prioritization, some overwhelm, some figuring out of, like, how do I even go about doing this? It's not doing the work for you. And that's the issue, in my opinion. So that's like, my ethical line is, like, if it's doing the work for you, that's probably an issue, but if it's a tool to support you in getting the work done, okay, that. That is something that I want. I have adhd. I struggle with decisions. I struggle with prioritization, planning, and organizing. And AI has been helpful for all of those things. For me, it doesn't do the work for me, but it sure is a tool to support me in getting the work done. So I'm just really curious, like, for you, are you open? Have you used it? Are you, like, what are the ways that you're using AI to support you? And if you're not yet, maybe. Maybe just give it a try. Unless you have, like, a. Some people have, like, a moral conviction against it. And I understand and I respect you and I and, and I support your right to not use it. That's totally fine. But if you feel like support is really hard to come by, this is a very free and accessible way to outsource some of that critical thinking that can really simplify your life. So give it a try. Let me know in the comments how it goes. I would love to hear your feedback. Unless you're mad at me, in which case you can let me know. You can let me know. I can handle it. I'm such a big girl. I'll pop it into AI and ask you what you mean. Just kidding. I won't. Okay, that's it for this week. I hope it's supportive. I hope it's helpful. I can't wait to see you back here. Same time, same place. I will see you then. Bye. Bye. A few years ago, I went looking for help. I wanted to find someone to teach me how to feel better about myself and to help me improve my organization, productivity, time management, emotional regulation, you know, all. All the things that we adults with ADHD struggle with. I couldn't find anything, so I researched and I studied and I hired coaches and I figured it out. Then I created Focused for you. Focused is my monthly coaching membership where I teach educated professional adults how to accept their ADHD brain and hijack their ability to get stuff done. Hundreds of people from all over the world are already benefiting from this program, and I'm confident that you will too. Go to ihaveadhd.com focused for all details. With VRBoCare, help is always ready before, during and after your stay. We've planned for the plot twists, so support is always available because a great trip starts with peace of mind.