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ADHD entrepreneurs often charge less than they should, and it's not a math problem. It’s so much more than that, and the cost is also so much bigger than your bank account balance. It's often a money shame and self-worth problem, and undercharging is often a short path to burnout!
Variable income and ADHD is a brutal combination, but it doesn’t have to continue to be chaos. Here's why the feast-or-famine cycle hits so hard and what actually helps break it.
Variable income is hard enough. Add ADHD and it feels impossible. Here's how to manage feast-or-famine cycles and actually feel confident about your money.
You've been building your business on nights and weekends. Maybe for months. Maybe for years. And lately, you've started thinking about it. That thought that keeps coming back during your morning commute, during boring meetings, when you're supposed to be focused on your actual job: What if I just quit and did this full-time and focus on my business full-time?
Tax season just ended, and you're sitting there with this nagging feeling that you missed stuff. Expenses you could have written off but didn't because you forgot to track them, or didn't realize they counted, or the receipts are somewhere in the void between your email and that drawer in your kitchen.
If you have ADHD and run a business, this probably feels painfully familiar. You're not trying to commit tax fraud. You're just trying to remember what you spent money on last year while your brain was running in seventeen different directions.
Let's talk about the five business expenses ADHD entrepreneurs most commonly miss, why we miss them, and how to actually catch them going forward without needing a perfect tracking system.
You're setting up pricing or planning a price increase and hit the question: should you let clients pay in installments or require full payment upfront? Payment plans could make your services more accessible, but you've heard horror stories about clients who stop paying halfway through or after you've delivered everything. If you're an ADHD entrepreneur, this decision feels even more complicated because managing payment plans requires organization, follow-up, and tracking. All things your brain finds challenging. In this post, I'm breaking down the pros and cons of offering payment plans for both you and your clients, how to protect yourself including not delivering in full until you're paid, using services that pay you upfront while clients pay installments, requiring significant deposits, and being selective about who gets payment plans.
