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🗓️ 27 September 2021
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0:00.0 | It's a minimalist Monday edition of Optimal Finance Daily, episode 1662. |
0:05.6 | How to Put Your Finances on Autopilot by Tanya Brown with financialfinesse.com |
0:11.5 | And I'm your host and personal finance enthusiast, Diana Mariam. |
0:15.6 | This is the show where I read to you and to myself, frankly, from some of the best |
0:20.3 | personal finance blogs on the planet every single day. We're surrounded by messages of how |
0:26.3 | difficult it can be to make ends meet and build wealth. So thank you for spending this time |
0:31.2 | with me where we can empower ourselves to take control of our financial health. |
0:35.7 | For now, let's get right to today's post as we continue to optimize your life. |
0:44.6 | How to Put Your Finances on Autopilot by Tanya Brown with financialfinesse.com |
0:50.5 | years ago, I had a friend who was a single recently divorced, old-time working mother of four |
0:57.6 | with three of the kids under the age of five. To call her life busy would be an understatement. |
1:04.3 | She asked me for help organizing her finances and I agreed. I knew whatever strategy we developed |
1:10.5 | had to be easy and automated. Here's what we did. Automating the budget. The first thing we worked |
1:18.4 | on was her budget. We looked at a variety of budgeting websites. There are many great money |
1:23.7 | management websites and she decided on Mint, which she said was the easiest to learn. She also |
1:30.2 | liked that it helped her to keep on track without her having to input a lot of information. |
1:35.6 | Putting some rules in place. Once we got her information loaded and categorized her expenses, |
1:42.2 | we made sure to put rules in place in Mint to continuously assign each expense to a particular |
1:48.3 | budget category. We then changed some of the budget categories to ones that matched her needs. |
1:54.9 | What she loves most about this step. What she loved most was that Mint created the initial budget |
2:01.8 | based on her current spending. It was able to tell her when she got off budget and it alerted |
2:07.4 | her to high withdrawals or when she was close to maxing out her credit cards. This made her |
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