Danielle RalstonFounder, How Capacity Works · Founder of ND Hive | Building the productivity hub where work actually gets done | Execution spaces, body doubling & community accountability

Beat the ADHD Tax: Strategies for Managing Taxes, Food and more! #adhdmanagement #ndoutloud

30 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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This content was created by Danielle Ralston. This content was uploaded by Danielle Ralston. This is an excerpt from a YouTube video titled "Beat the ADHD Tax: Strategies for Managing Taxes, Food and more! #adhdmanagement #ndoutloud" (created 2024-03-30). It contains an informal, multi-speaker discussion (labeled SPEAKER A and SPEAKER B) about anxiety and procrastination around doing taxes, differences in tax preparation when self-employed/entrepreneurial, and related family experiences (mother and father with multiple businesses). The clip appears to be part of a broader conversation about managing tasks and finances in the context of ADHD.

their job was supposed to be. And taxes, that's one of those things that I am so overly paranoid about that I get it done like really, really fast. And the fact that it's February 15th and I still haven't done my taxes is causing me a ton of anxiety.
I always try to get mine early no matter what. I try to get everything turned in by the end of February so that it is in the tax guy's hands. And then if he takes time, like, it's still like there's time.
Exactly.
But this year, because I'm an entrepreneur, my taxes are a little bit different than when I worked a traditional job. So, and that's another thing that like my mom, her taxes, it wasn't like just taking your W-2 down to the tax prep guy. Like her and my dad have multiple businesses and things like that. So she always felt, one, she had anxiety. So she dicked around because she would procrastinate and she wouldn't do it. And then she felt like she needed to go through and figure everything up because they got more money back when she figured it out.