Real Life ADHD: Adulting & Life Admin Helper

If you live with ADHD (or just feel overwhelmed all the time), “adulting” tasks can pile up until they feel impossible. This space is here to walk you through real‑life admin and home chores one tiny step at a time—no judgment, no 47‑step productivity system, just clear checklists written for tired brains.

How Real Life ADHD works

This isn’t a fancy app or another planner you’ll abandon in a week. It’s a simple set of “Adulting Recipes” that break big, stressful tasks into tiny, doable actions.

• Pick one Adulting Recipe that matches the thing you’ve been avoiding.

• Follow the step‑by‑step checklist on its page—no decision‑making required.

• Optionally, get gentle email nudges so you don’t have to remember to come back.(Coming soon!)

Adulting Recipes

Start with one tiny win

Choose one Adulting Recipe below. Each one has a simple checklist designed for low‑to‑medium energy days and ADHD‑style brains.

Recipe 1 – Cancel One Useless Subscription

• Description: Stop paying for a service you barely use. This guided checklist walks you through logging in, finding the cancel button, and confirming you’re actually done.

• Time: About 15–20 minutes.

Recipe 2 – Schedule One Overdue Health Appointment

• Description: That dentist, doctor, or specialist you’ve been putting off? This recipe gives you a script, a mini plan, and reminders for before and after the appointment.

• Time: About 10–15 minutes (plus appointment day).

Recipe 3 – Tame One Scary Stack of Mail

• Description: Turn that intimidating pile of mail into three simple piles: trash, to‑do, and keep. This checklist helps you do it without spiraling.

• Time: About 20–30 minutes, or split over a few days.

Recipe 4 – Set Up Autopay for One Bill

• Description: Pick one bill that always seems to be late and set up a simple autopay or reminder so it stops eating your brain space.

• Time: About 10–15 minutes.

Recipe 5 – Laundry Reset Weekend (ADHD Edition)

• Description: A gentle plan to get from “mountains of laundry everywhere” to “I have clean clothes I can actually find,” broken into small chunks over a weekend.

• Time: Spread over a weekend in small bursts.

Recipe 6 – Create One “Important Papers” Folder

• Description: Instead of 20 random piles of documents, you’ll set up one simple home for the most important papers, with an ADHD‑friendly way to maintain it.

• Time: About 20–30 minutes.

Want one tiny task emailed to you each week?

If remembering to come back to a website is the hard part, let me do the remembering. Join the Real Life ADHD email list and I’ll send you one small, brain‑friendly adulting task each week, with a direct link to the checklist that walks you through it.

• One tiny adulting task per week—no long newsletters.

• Links directly to the checklist page so you don’t have to hunt for it.

• Written with ADHD and executive dysfunction in mind.

• Unsubscribe anytime. No spam, just practical help with the boring stuff.
  

About / Why this exists

Why I made Real Life ADHD

Adulting is hard enough when your brain plays nicely. When you add ADHD, anxiety, grief, or just chronic overwhelm, everyday tasks can start to feel like a shame pile you’re constantly tripping over. I create art, planners, and tools for real people with real brains—and Real Life ADHD is my way of turning that into tiny, practical support for your day‑to‑day life admin.

You won’t find perfection or productivity‑hustle vibes here. Just simple, honest checklists and a gentle voice saying, “Let’s do this one little thing together today.”