Dyspraxia and budgeting: how to finish a budget when interruptions keep sending you back to the start, using 1 page and 5 boxes. For dyspraxic adults and anyone with ADHD who keeps starting over.

You sit down to write your budget. The statement will not download. The kids need you. And next time, you start again from the top.

This episode gives you a simple way to finish a budget, 1 job at a time, even when you keep getting interrupted and when working memory is not playing the game.

In this episode, Esther Bangura, financial coach for neurodivergent adults, explains why so many dyspraxic adults have started a budget several times and never finished one. Budgeting is 5 jobs in a row, and an interruption wipes both what you were doing and where you were up to. Esther shares her own story from her years as a project manager, the hidden interruptions inside a budget, and a 1 page method that holds your place so your working memory does not have to.

Highlights

• Why a budget is really 5 jobs, and why interruptions send you back to the start.
• The 3 kinds of interruptions: outside, inside the budget, and the thoughts nobody sees.
• The 1 page, 5 box method, and how to mark where you stopped so you can pick back up.

Work with me

Ninety minute one to one coaching session. We take the thing you have been circling and get it done together, so you leave with it finished rather than planned. Bring whatever numbers you have found so far, and we find the rest together. https://estherbangura.com/coaching

Links and resources

PocketSmith, the budgeting app I use myself and with my clients: get 50% off the Foundation Monthly plan for the first two months https://my.pocketsmith.com/redeem?tap_a=77627-d2024d&ref=mzjlndb&code=50OFFPREMIUM-F4RG

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