The Dopamine Budget

Spend Now, Cry Later? Never Again!

Dana Skalin

What It’s About

This isn't your parents' boring finance book!

The Dopamine Budget is a radically kind, science-backed guide for neurodivergent minds. It ditches shame for a fun, feel-good system that uses dopamine—your brain's reward chemical—to help you stop the "spend now, cry later" cycle for good.

This book dives deep into why executive dysfunction wrecks your budgeting plans, how ADHD affects financial habits, and what actually works when your brain's like “nope, not today.”

You’ll learn how to

• The real reason adulting feels impossible

• Why budgeting “the normal way” doesn’t work for us

• How to build a dopamine-powered financial system that actually sticks

Inside the Book

• Budgeting Tips for People Who Hate Budgeting

• Tools That Don’t Suck

• Ways to Stop Impulse Spending Forever

• Budgeting Myths Busted On Sight!

• Templates for Real-Life Brains (Not Spreadsheet Robots)

• Exercises That Don't Make You Want to Set Fire to Your Laptop

This isn’t about discipline. It’s about dopamine.

It's not about sacrifice. It's about strategy.