ADHD and executive dysfunction can make a money system stop after a few weeks. Here is how to keep your Money Day going when you only have 5 minutes, without starting over.

You notice you have skipped your money check in.

2 days, then a week.

Quietly, you decide it is over, and you will start again next month.

Learn how to build a 5 minute version of your money system, so a low week means switching down instead of giving up.

In this episode, Esther Bangura, financial coach for neurodivergent adults, explains what executive dysfunction is in plain language, and why discipline, motivation and building habits work differently with ADHD. She shares how her own Friday Money Day keeps running on low capacity days, with gears from 5 minutes to 3 hours, and how it handles starting, planning, switching and changing the plan in advance. In her survey of 279 neurodivergent adults in the UK, 80 per cent said they overspend when they are stressed. You will also hear how to find your own 5 minute list by noticing which small money tasks leave you calm and in control.

Highlights

• What executive dysfunction is, and why discipline, motivation and habits take a different route with ADHD.
• How one Money Day can have gears, from 5 minutes to 3 hours, so a low week does not end the system.
• How to find your own 5 minute list by noticing which small money tasks leave you calm and in control.

Work with me

If you are tired of starting over every month, I would love to work with you. Ninety minute one to one coaching session. We build your Money Day and your 5 minute list together, and set up anything that needs setting up, so you leave with it finished rather than planned.

https://estherbangura.com/coaching

Links and resources

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

This is an affiliate link. If you sign up through it I may earn a small commission, at no extra cost to you. I only recommend tools I use myself and with my clients.

I am an official PocketSmith coach, listed in their coaching directory as a neurodivergent money coach. If signing up is easy but setting it up is the part that never happens, that is exactly the kind of thing we do together in a session.

The ND Money Insider, my weekly newsletter. This week it includes my full Money Day list, from 5 minutes to an hour. https://estherbangura.com/newsletter

The Neurodivergence and Money Report, the full findings from my research with 279 neurodivergent adults in the UK. https://estherbangura.com/nd-money-report

Questions, feedback or reviews https://estherbangura.com/ask

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