There are three traditional methods of management of personal income.
1. Budgeting,
2. An expense of maintaining the history and
3. Do Nothing (also known as live paycheck to paycheck).
Which implies the establishment of budgets percent of future income is being spent on which categories of expenditure, and then record all purchases in order to track spending and how it stays in the predefined limits. The process seems very simple, however, is difficult, in my opinion, to stick with a budget for long. The energy and dedication necessary to keep track of where your money goes is tremendous. I have tried on several occasions budgeting and failed miserably because I could not keep track of every penny you spend stomach.
Traditional budgets also tend to fail because the setting rigid spending limits is not good to be flexible. When unforeseen pop-up, a budget can be useless very quickly. It is my experience that budgets can feel like monetary straight jackets are abandoned before.
Stories spending – a vicious circle
An expense of maintaining the story also involves recording every cent spent. The intention is to use the spending in history as a basis for identifying spending habits can be improved, and then make the necessary changes to future spending patterns. The main weakness of an expense of maintaining the story that focuses on past activity and thus is of little help when a person is trying to make immediate decisions about the expenditure for the current and future needs.
This is the normal cycle of maintenance expenditure in history. This cycle highlights the weakness in spending on history as a tool for managing cash flow.
1. It takes time to accumulate a spending history. While the accumulation of history, habits will probably inadequate. Failure to consistently follow their bad habits will not be able to document in their spending in history.
2. You have to track and record every penny of their spending. Expenditure information must be recorded in some kind of tracking device that is capable of organizing information and viewing of reports and graphs. Two examples of such tracking devices are Quicken and Money. As mentioned above, keeping track of every penny spent, fair and that the information recording, has a lot of dedication and energy.
3. Or no change in spending habits are effective, and whether or not the habits are really beginning to change, can not be determined until the additional expense of history has accumulated. Having accumulated enough history so that we can see spending some of their bad habits, it’s time to adjust their spending patterns. To determine whether these adjustments are appropriate and have the desired effect, you have to go back to step 1.
The failure of a maintenance expenditure of history as a tool for managing cash flow is, in my opinion, that is expected. This technique of money management is, in my opinion, based on generally accepted accounting principles (the generally accepted accounting practices) that are specifically used by companies to track what happened, what we plan is not about to happen. The “about to happen” is left to the annual budgeting processes. This approach is suitable for businesses, but it is cumbersome and not for personal use.
The software used to accumulate a spending history, in my view, also contributes to failure in the history of technology spending. These types of programs tend to be overly complex and inflexible for many people. I tried both Quicken and Money. In addition to my aversion to these programs, I found that very few people actually use Quicken and money for its intended purposes. The reason we hear is customary to buy any of these programs is because they contain a check register. That is the only feature being used.
The “do nothing” Method
I think most people end up doing nothing because it has never shown a better way, or because, like me, I’ve tried and not in the budget and / or cost of maintaining the story. Doing nothing means that its management of personal finance is reduced to pay the bills when the bills come due with the money that is available at the moment. They live from paycheck to paycheck time when a lot of money interspersed with periods when they may not be enough on hand to buy bread and milk. This roller coaster for personal cash flow, in my opinion, ill-advised and encouraged spending almost guarantees increasing indebtedness.
What is a monthly and Finance?
There is a new alternative that overcomes the above personnel management problems of cash flow. Created from practical necessity, this new alternative may require new ways of seeing and thinking about personal finance and the tools used to manage finances. Before discussing this new approach to managing personal cash flow, first going to a new look at the activities that integrate personal finance. Before you can begin to effectively manage their finances, it helps to have an understanding of what they are driving.
I will stay at a monthly personal finance in the following five activities.
1. Receipt of income.
2. Pay the bills.
3. Paying everyday expenses.
4. The payment of expenses larger than normal.
5. Leaving aside a cushion.
This list does not include all activities associated with building wealth intentionally. The concern here is concerned with fundamental questions of daily life comfortable and paying bills on time. Once these issues are addressed successfully and consistently, wealth creation becomes a possibility.
I think the main reason people get into trouble with their finances, because the activity is to 1, getting a paycheck, when control over all other activities happen. Invoices are normally paid in the pay day because it is where the money is available. Depending on how much is needed to pay its bills each payday, the amount left over for daily expenses may be high or low. Sound familiar? And, of receiving paychecks is to determine when to pay the bills, and the size of the bills are determining how much money is left, there is rarely any excess money to the 4 and 5. Leaving aside the money for a rainy day “simply will not happen. Making major purchases, such as replacing the refrigerator when the Fritz or buy a new set of tires, added more to the credit card balances.
Having growing, unreported and unregulated debt savings can, in my view, be attributed directly from their paychecks to control their cash flow.
Getting Off The Roller Coaster
How to break the life payday to payday cycle roller coaster? Budgeting and spending of keeping a story, although very useful for some people, are, in my opinion, not the solutions that work for most of us. Gain control of their finances is instead a matter of simplifying your finances. This is done by the removal of all activities of their personal finances. The five above activities are related, but they can be administered separately. Once you begin to manage their cash flow management activities separately, something magical happens. The domino effect of (1) get a paycheck, (2) pay your bills, (3) provides that remains in your pocket, it stops. Instead, their accounts begin to receive payments on time and money for daily expenses is consistent from week to week.
The separation of personal finance is accomplished through activities that apply these two techniques.
1. Separated from the receipt of income from paying bills. Instead of paying bills on pay day, sit down and arrange for payment of bills on a schedule that is independent of income when received.
2. Set the amount of money for daily expenses into a weekly amount. Instead of pocketing more than what remains after paying the bills, “pay” you the same amount on the same day each week, regardless of when you pay.
When implemented, these two very simple rules for managing personal cash flow are very powerful. I’ve been using for decades in my personal finances. Before stumbling on these techniques, which used to stay awake nights worrying about how they would pay the rent. It is customary for me to be continually in search of a new bill consolidation loans. Sometimes the purchase of food has not been possible in the short days of payment. Aside from saving something that was not even thought of.
Since starting to use tools for managing cash flow is based on two simple rules, money is no longer a force in control of my life or my wife. Always pay our bills on time. Lois and continually have money in your pocket for daily expenses. We have no credit card debt, since our declaration to pay the balances in full each month on or before the due date. And the planning of large and unexpected expenses is easy because we have a detailed, in front of our eyes focused on current and future cash flows. Money and bills are not the sources of stress and discord that used to be.
It’s easy if you are willing
The implementation of the disengagement over the rules for their personal finances requires no special tools. Good construction manual or spreadsheet software will do the trick. I used an Excel spreadsheet to help a professor friend of ours go “months rather than the money” to “more money than months” in just a few weeks. The problem is that our friend had to come to see me regularly to update your worksheet. He was not familiar with Excel. Moreover, their coach was on the techniques that made the worksheet. That’s when I decided to write a program for me, and anyone who is interested, will have easy access, easy to use tool for streamlining the management of their cash flows.
You can also get peace of mind financially. It’s easy if you are willing to make some simple lifestyle changes including the use of a tool for managing cash flow, which is based on the decoupling of the two techniques discussed above.