Coaching practices for Every Payday I Tell Myself I'll Set Some Aside and Every Payday It's Gone Before I Get Around to it I'm Tired of Relying on Making the Same Good Decision Over and Over I Just Want it to Happen Automatically So Present Me Never Gets the Chance to Raid it

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• Every month I tell myself I’ll move some money over to savings when I get a chance, and every month the decision just doesn’t happen
• Every payday I tell myself I’ll set some aside, and every payday it’s gone before I get around to it
• Every month I tell myself I’ll move some money into savings once I see what’s left, and every month there’s somehow nothing left
• I keep telling myself I’ll save whatever’s left at the end of the month, and somehow there’s never anything left
• I keep promising myself I’ll save whatever’s left at the end of the month, but there’s never anything left

Practices that may help

1. Automate the transfer so it happens without a decision
   Move the priority money the day it arrives, automatically, before anything else competes for it.
   Pay Yourself First, Made Practical
2. Automate future-self allocations at a moment of patience
   Set up automatic transfers or pre-blocked time when you’re in a patient state — remove the future-self decision from present-self’s hands.
   Hyperbolic Discounting — Why Future You Always Gets the Short End
3. Automate your contribution on payday
   Set a recurring transfer to your investment account the day your paycheck arrives.
   Automatic Investing, Made Practical
4. Automate savings and investments before the money hits checking
   Route savings to investment and savings accounts automatically on payday, before you see the balance.
   Conscious Spending Plan, Made Practical
5. Automate the 20% before the rest of your money arrives
   Move savings before you see the money — what isn’t visible isn’t spent.
   The 50/30/20 Budget: A Simple Framework for Where Your Money Goes
6. Protect the priority against quiet leakage
   An automated system still fails if you keep raiding it — add friction to the exit.
   Pay Yourself First, Made Practical
7. Automate the investment so the decision is never repeated
   Set up automatic transfers on payday so investing happens before the money is available to spend.
   Dollar-Cost Averaging, Made Practical
8. Automate the extra payment on the target debt the day after payday
   Schedule the extra avalanche payment as an automatic transfer so the decision is made once, not every month.
   The Debt Avalanche, Made Practical
9. Automate the cut before you can spend it
   When you cut a recurring expense, redirect the exact dollar amount to savings automatically on the same day.
   The Latte Factor: Small Spending and the Cost of Habit
10. Age your money
    Work toward spending money that arrived 30+ days ago, not money from yesterday’s paycheck.
    YNAB Budgeting, Made Practical

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