How to completely transform your finances

Okay, if you tend to be somebody who is a spender rather than a saver, let me just, hopefully, set you free. Like, most of the financial advice out there is very much driven towards savers, because savers love talking about money and savers love sharing tips with savers on how to save. Nothing wrong with that, but this is a page meant for the spenders because we be laughed out of the conversation, okay? I'm going to share with you what I've done to hack my brain to essentially break out of poverty, because my behavior with money is very dopamine-driven. Very. Okay, I'm ADHD as fuck. And let me just give you a side note, I have a degree in neuroscience, and so my current understanding of ADHD is not that we have a lack of dopamine, it's just that we have a hard time channeling it. Like it's either a fire hose or it's just like not there. So this can actually be our superpower if we channel it correctly. I'm going to share with you the things that I do to generate dopamine in my life so that I don't need it to come from my money, because otherwise I just spend my money. Spending money for me creates a great amount of dopamine for me. Dopamine is the molecule of more. So the dopamine is the thing that says, hey, you got a reward for doing that, you should do it again. And so spending your money becomes a vicious cycle because it is very dopamine-driven and dopamine tells you do it again. What I do is I have so many, and you don't have to do it this way, you just like find the flavor of dopamine that works for you. But find something, a way to reward yourself for the behaviors that you know you need to do. So the way that I do that is like, I love planning. And I didn't start off that way, but I became a meticulous planner. And the reason I do the planning is not because the plan goes according to plan. The reason I do the planning is because it's an extremely rewarding behavior for me and it also actually activates a part of my brain called the prefrontal cortex, which is what you need for impulse control, emotional regulation, planning for the future, and making decisions that are complex, which is all, you know, budgeting skills. I get my planner, okay? And I make it like color-coded. I make it a thing, I make it a ritual. I go to the coffee shop, I put on a cute outfit every week, it's in my calendar, it's like a date with myself. And then I also have this big jumbo calendar because my brain needs to see things in front of my eyeballs, otherwise it doesn't exist, because that's ADHD. And then I get out my markers, look at. I have all kinds of markers with different colors and I check off the dates when they happen. I check off the boxes in my planner and like every time I do that, I get a little sparkle in my brain and that is known as dopamine. And that is how I encourage myself to continue to do the behaviors that I want. I'm like, okay, the calendar says I'm doing this. When it's done, I check it off and then I get dopamine and then I do it again, okay? And it channels that energy away from my bank account and all the things that I could spend and all the wish list and the Amazon and the Pinterest boards, and it puts it towards something that I can actually tangibly, like, oh my god, I look at my calendar and I'm like, oh, I actually did that. That gives me a brain, gives me a nice little brain sparkle. I feel rewarded for it because I'm like, wow, I did that. And dopamine is all about doing. Dopamine is the molecule of more. And so if you just learn how to hijack that part of your brain, dude, you become a fucking machine. You become a powerhouse and you completely change your life, not just your financial reality, but your entire reality inside out, top to bottom, left to right.