EP. 375: You Get to Decide Who You Are
ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka
Action Forms Identity and Confidence
Tracy ties values, action, and identity together: small starts build confidence and prove you can get things done.
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Most of us never actually choose our values. We absorb them from parents, culture, and community, and then wonder why our lives feel like a scratchy sweater we can't take off. That works for a while until something starts to feel off. Nothing is technically wrong, but you have the sense that the life you're living may not actually fit you.
Procrastination lives in the same neighborhood. It's not about the task. It's about the feeling the task creates, boredom, confusion, fear, or perfectionism, which is fear in a tailored blazer.
The shift comes when you realize you get to choose.
You can drop values that feel like an uncomfortable sweater and replace them with ones that actually feel right.
In this episode, let’s talk about how to identify what you actually value, why motivation follows action and never the other way around, how to shrink the start so small your brain can't resist, and how to hack dopamine so it works for you instead of against you.
If you've been waiting to feel ready, motivated, or confident before you start, this episode will flip that. You don't become the person first. Every small action teaches your brain who you are becoming.
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