As a professional organizer, I’m a huge fan of creating daily routines to keep life running easier. In fact, earlier today I re-ran a 2021 post on my organizing blog about using daily routines to add ease to your life.
One of my strongest daily habits is doing my YNAB. As I’ve outlined here, every morning, I login into YNAB and while I’m enjoying my coffee, I categorize, approve, reconcile and assign. I also cover any overspending and check my spending plan to make sure there isn’t anything else I need to do.
Since I do this every day it doesn’t take long. YNAB + my delicious cold-brew coffee is a marvelous way to start the day. Best of all, I never get behind in YNAB and I can always trust my spending plan. (I also have a weekend routine of entering the week’s YNAB transactions related to my business into Quickbooks so I don’t get backlogged on that.)
What about you? Can you see yourself logging into YNAB every day and doing everything that needs to be done? If you’re not already doing that, I urge you to think about when you could do it. (I have a friend who does her YNAB on her phone every morning in the hot tub!) Daily attention to YNAB pays giant dividends. It doesn’t matter what part of the day you do it, but if you can work it into your daily routine, you won’t regret it!
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