The 4 A’s That will Change Your Life

Dr. Diana Mercado-Marmarosh: Hello? Hello. Welcome to beyond ADHD, a physician's perspective. I am Dr. Diana Mercado-Marmarosh. I'm a family medicine physician practicing in rural Texas. I used to be hindered by my ADHD, but I now see it as a gift that helps me show up as a person. I was always meant to meet both in my work and in my personal lives.

In the past two years, I've come to realize. That unlearning some of my beliefs and some of my habits were just as important as learning the new set of skills. Hello.

I am so excited to be with you guys today, but he's been.

Before, I'm actually gonna start a group coaching program in October. It's gonna be on Thursdays at noon central, and it's gonna be for all the healthcare professionals. So that means like the nurses, physical physician assistant. And that means nurse practi.

And pharmacists and dentist, anybody who can benefit from being able to practice medicine in a team setting. And doing such that will free up their time as well as their energy and be able to develop tools and techniques to help them with emotional dysregulation and effective executive function techniques.

I am so thrilled to announce this new group that I'm gonna be happy. So I wanted you to hear about it today. And before that I want invite you free masterclass. That I'm gonna be on September the first at. 30 central PM. So please go over to my website, ADHD, live coach.com to register for that. If you're not able to come live you can obtain it in the replay the next day.

So that way you can still the one hour CME credit by listening to it and the topic.

Masterclass is going to be how there's certain tasks that we all have to do and why not get the in basket to zero without it being a pain in a career. So I hope you're able to come. And if you know anybody in your team who might like an amazing nurse practitioner or physician assistant, Or from this pharmacist, send them my way.

I am so excited to be able to provide this service to them as well. Okay. So today's talk is going to be about the four A's, the four A's that will

Awareness get freedom of time. Okay. And so for me, the awareness acceptance action and alignment are the four A's that I want you to think about. So any time we have to do any tasks, if you can apply these four A's, you're gonna save yourself a lot of time, a lot of headache, a lot of frustration and you can apply really in anything.

To me, I

apply it to my everyday life. Like I take it with a grain of salt. I realize that awareness is the first step. If we didn't know that there was something that could be done better, then obviously we wouldn't be worried about it. And so when you don't know what you don't know, it keeps us.

From growing and learning. And so awareness that what if there is a better way for me is so critical acceptance so the acceptance that things might be boring, that things might be hard that things don't have to be the way they are, might be that thing that you need in order to keep moving forward.

Action. You have to do something. Anything to disrupt the current habits that you have, because if you keep doing the same thing that you've been doing every single day, because our bodies in our mind want to preserve energy and we are in autopilot and don't question little, disrupt the system, then we're gonna keep getting the same result.

If you want to get something different, if you're not liking what you've been obtaining and you want something different, if you're tired of pajama chart, if you're tired of not having enough time for your family, if you're tired of not having enough money in your bank account, you need to take action to change.

Your result so that you don't keep living in the same past present reality. And so how do you do that? you go back to the first three, you have to become aware that something has to change you then have to accept that. Yes, you do have a choice. Yes. You get to decide that you are worth.

Putting in the work to get to whatever version of yourself that you want, and then you take action towards it. And guess what? In order for that to happen, you have to be in alignment. Like your mind has to be in alignment with your heart. I know it sounds weird, but again, if you know why you're doing certain.

Okay. I wanna lose weight because I wanna be able to like, see my daughter graduate. And I feel like if I lose weight, I am gonna be able to prevent a heart attack or I'm gonna live longer. I'm gonna decrease my chances of cancer. Then that tells you like the why you're doing something. And so then when you're doing every action.

Towards that you asked yourself, is this action that I'm about to do? Is it an alignment with the goal that I'm trying to accomplish? Yes or no? If it is a yes, then go for it. If it's a no, then ask yourself okay, do I really need to do X, Y, and Z at this moment? And then with all of that, you have to be willing to.

Do it messy to do it. I perfect because whatever we've been doing has gotten us here, but the next version of us, that's gonna get us there. Needs to believe that you can do it. And I know right now you're probably thinking I don't know. I haven't been able to do it and that's okay. You can believe that, but guess what?

I'm here to help you. I'm gonna hold the belief for you. And I wanna hear from you. I want you to apply this awareness. Acceptance action. And then alignment. And I want you to email me tag me on social media, either on my TikTok on Instagram. And tell me how you applied this and how this worked for you, whether it's for inbox zero, that you came to my master class, whether it's that you're signing out for my.

12 week healthcare professional course, that's gonna give you CME and transform your life. Let know how things go. And I can't wait to hear the amazing things that you're gonna do because you chose you. You chose to have an awareness you chose to accept this task and you are taking action that is gonna align you with the goals that you want long term.

Thank you for spending your time with me. I really believe that time is your most valuable. Please subscribe to the podcast, share with your colleagues. And don't forget to check out my website at ADHD. Live coach.com, where you can find out about my upcoming coaching group classes, as well as free master classes and other exciting events that are gonna happen.