The Money Love Podcast

137: Habits & Routines to organize your Life & Finances with Alaina Fingal, Founder of The Organized Money

Apr 4, 2024

In this engaging conversation, Alaina Fingal, a certified financial coach and founder of The Organized Money, shares her expertise in organizing life and finances. She discusses the importance of customizing financial systems to fit individual needs. Alaina reframes budgeting as a positive tool rather than a chore, while highlighting essential routines like transaction reviews and annual financial assessments. Listeners learn how to budget sustainably, tackle unexpected expenses, and incorporate flexibility into their financial practices.

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Quick takeaways

Establishing daily planning routines allows individuals to anticipate expenses, reducing impulsive spending and enhancing overall financial awareness.

Creating a realistic budget that reflects actual spending habits prevents frustration and encourages consistent adherence to financial plans.

Regular financial check-ins and reviews foster discipline and adaptability, crucial for effective money management and achieving personal financial goals.

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The Significance of Financial Organization

Financial organization is crucial for managing personal finances effectively. Keeping financial records and budgets helps individuals track their spending habits and achieve their financial goals. For example, a clear organization system can prevent overspending by enabling people to foresee and budget for various expenses, rather than reacting to them last minute. As discussed in the episode, the way Elena organizes finances can simplify the budgeting process significantly, leading to better overall financial health.

Intro

4min

Navigating Financial Organization

25min

Reframing the Budget

6min

Essential Routines for Financial Organization

4min

Annual Financial Review: Planning for a Cleaner Start

3min

Navigating Personal Finance with Grace

15min

Practical Resources for Financial Organization

2min

Does it feel like your money is all over the place? Do you find that there's always "surprise" expenses popping up that you forgot to plan ahead for? Do you struggle to form and stick to a routine with your finances? If your finances feel messy, choatic, and disorganized then this week's episode of the podcast is for you.

In this episode of The Money Love Podcast I'm covering habits and routines to organize your life and money with Certified Financial Coach and founder of The Organized Money, Alaina Fingal. We're covering the first step you need to take to get your money organized (even if you're not a Type A person), how to be realistic with your budget, how to make a plan for your money that reflects your unique goals and personality (and how to actually stick to it), the 4 money habits you need to stay organized with your money, and how to know if you're overspending, or under-budgeting. Enjoy!

About Alaina:

Alaina is a certified financial coach, author, and content creator. She helps busy people who struggle with budgeting and time management use a paper planner to get organized. She shares her easy approach to finances through her YouTube channel and has amassed over 180,000 subscribers and 20 million views on the platform. She serves on the Financial Expert Review Board for CNET Money and her work has been featured in Yahoo Finance, The New York Weekly, Wired, The Huffington Post, CNBC Make It and others.

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