3 Simple Steps to Start Your ADHD-Friendly Financial Journey

From Overwhelm to Organized

SIMPLE STEP 1

Start With Why

There are so many bright, shiny things flashing and popping for our attention and we are suckers for a good offer. If we don’t have a goal bright enough to overcome these financial struggles it can be hard to stay on track with any plan. As Simon Sinek tells us - we have to start with why.

What have you always wanted? For some people this will be as big as owning their own home and for others it will be something unnecessary but exciting, like that shiny new coffee machine that keeps getting shoved to the bottom of the spending list after all the kids school supplies.

Pick one thing that lights you up when you think about it. Print out a picture of it and keep it in your wallet or stuck to your credit card as a reminder of what you want instead of impulsively spending on something you don’t really need.

SIMPLE STEP 2

Understand How ADHD Affects Your Wallet

It is not a one-size-fits-all. Just because you have ADHD doesn’t mean that you are hopelessly doomed to financial frivolity for life. ADHD comes in many shapes and sizes and is heavily impacted by the environments that shape us.

An incredibly important part of understanding how our ADHD affects our wallets is understanding what the biggest roadblocks are for you. The four biggest issues causing financial disarray that I experience with my clients are:

  1. Disorganisation

  2. Impulsive Spending

  3. Difficulty Planning

  4. Procrastination.

Discover which of these is the biggest obstacle to your financial success by taking my free ADHD Money Saboteur’s Quiz.

SIMPLE STEP 3

Track Your Spending - Easy Edition

The very first exercise that I ask each of my clients to do is to track their spending for a week. This sounds tedious but it can actually be quite exciting and addictive when you start to see it as a game. The more you fill out the tracker, the more you start to see your spending patterns. To give you even more understanding of how you spend, I’d like you to track your feelings every time you spend.

Understanding how our ever changing feelings affect our spending can be fascinating and really helps us to discover how our emotions affect our wallets - especially as emotions can be such a tricky part of ADHD.

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Taking control of your finances doesn’t have to be a scary or lonely road. Book a free, no obligation friendly chat to see if I am the right person to help you with your ADHD impacted finances.