On this episode of the Personal Finance Podcast,

we're going to talk about how you can automate your finances

and how you can treat yourself at the same time. What is up everybody and welcome to the personal finance podcast? I'm your host

Andrew founder of Dollar After Dollar.com and today we're going to be talking about how to automate your finances.

And conventional wisdom will say that motivation is the key to changing our habits.

Maybe if you wanted it badly enough, you would make sure it gets done. But honestly, let's get real.

Because what we really want is the path of least resistance. We want to take the easier route and many productivity gurus will tell you that this is a dumb strategy

But what they fail to recognize is that it's actually a really smart strategy why Why? Because your energy and my energy is finite and it's

precious. We only have so much energy. And it's in our nature to conserve as much of our

energy as we possibly can.

This is the key to understanding, and this is why we all gravitate towards the path of least effort.

So if you're deciding between two options, and one of those options reaps the same result but is much easier,

which do you think you're going to choose? You're always going to choose the easier option.

We want to find the option that brings us the highest return with the least amount of effort

and every person on this planet is motivated to do what is easy.

In other words, we want it easy like Sunday morning.

The same goes with our money. Every action requires effort.

The higher the efforts you have to put out, the lower the chances are you will actually take action and each effort

use on something that does not produce value creates an additional obstacle in

your life. You're obviously capable of doing a hard things but the problem lies

when your willpower becomes fatigued and it wears down.

See you have to have a set plan in place.

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