Originally published on July 17, 2025
This is not a typical newsletter. What’s written here will not cover budgets or spreadsheets necessarily. While a desire to publish more editions has still been prevalent, a desire to do something different grew more and more in between this edition and the last one from fear of it becoming another project dropped after the initial dopamine rush had faded.
With ADHD, sometimes a simple change of approach can unlock a whole new thing.
The Newsletter is Dead, Long Live the Newsletter!
Lo and behold the answer to getting this edition completed was to approach it in a whole new manner. ADHD thrives off novelty and interest. If writing a newsletter in the same way wasn’t providing the novelty and interest to keep me engaged and motivated, what could I do differently to change that?
The answer, employ some creative maladjustment by not writing anything at all, using resources already at my disposal, and allowing myself to follow where my interest takes me.
The result is instead of something written in an essay format as before, I’ve created this video from one of my free biweekly group coaching sessions featuring guest speaker Kat Sklar, CPA. I was a lot of fun putting together and I have plans to post more videos in the coming months with other guest speakers from my group coaching sessions.
I hope you enjoy this video and find something helpful from it.
Description from YouTube:
From the Reclaiming Your ADHD Group Coaching and Support session on 6/19/25.
Can spreadsheets solve life’s dilemmas? According to this session’s guest, the answer is YES!
Joined by Business and Personal Finance Coach Kat Sklar (they/them), we discussed how they help their neurospicy clients use the You Need a Budget app (YNAB) to manage their finances like a pro, and how to use spreadsheets as a creative medium for business and life problem solving. Sprinkled in along the way were a few tips on managing impulsive spending, the mental health benefits of maintaining budgets daily, paying off credit card debt, and randomly the Portland Pickles.
Whether you’re a business owner, creative, or simply struggling with finances this is the perfect session for neurodivergent folks of all flavors.
Taking what I learned while putting both the video and this newsletter together, I now have a framework to help keep moving forward. More thoughts on that to come later.
Until then, if you find yourself stuck on something, ask yourself “how can I approach this in a different manner yet still get the same results?” Who knows what you might uncover. You might find something even better along the way.
To learn more about my services, visit Bay Area ADHD Coach.
Register for my free biweekly ADHD group coaching sessions on Meetup.
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