This is Optimal Finance Daily, episode 1201, a system for automating your personal finances by

Chris wrining of Chris Rhining.com.

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now let's hear our post as we start optimizing your life. A system for automating your personal finances by Chris Reining of Chris Reining.com.

Are you one of the people that get a paper paycheck even though your employer offers direct deposit, or maybe

you get bills sent to you in the mail requiring you to keep track of due dates, write a check out,

dig through the junk drawer to find a stamp, and then drop the payment in the

outgoing mail even though you could be receiving paperless statements and

automatic bill payment. In the past, and we're talking the 1990s, most of us

were wasting hours of our lives handling our personal finances because there

wasn't a better option.

But now that the Internet has revolutionized our lives, we have the opportunity to unleash

it on our finances, saving us time, saving us money, and perhaps best of all,

simplifying our lives. Here's the three reasons to automate your finances. One, you're wasting your time. Transferring money between accounts, finding bills, paying

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