For hundreds of years, budgeting has existed as the central used to achieve financial awareness and success. Budgeting includes taking an honest assessment of how much money is generated, how money is spent, and how one plans on spending moving forward. Budgeting is the act of being 100% intentional with how your money is handled. Budgeting creates transparency and awareness, which are both critical to making decisions in life.

Questions to Get Started

The following questions are essential to help you get started.

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Use the Right Tools

To get the job done, we need to use the right tools. While there are hundreds of offline and online tools available in the world, a simple spreadsheet that keeps track of your income and expenses is a great starting point.

(Link to download budget tool)

Strategy

A budget takes realistic stock of how money is spent, how money ought to be spent, and how much money is being generated. But simply planning and knowing is not enough. We have to also create an attack strategy to help us stick to our plan. The following are three tips to help you STICK to your budget once you made it:

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Reviewing Your Budget

Another healthy discipline along with budgeting is reviewing your budget and your progress. While planning is essential, it is equally important to assess our plans and tweak (or majorly change) our plan of attack to more realistically reflect what’s happening in our lives. The following are three tips to help you REVIEW your budget once you’ve worked your plan for a certain amount of time.

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Additional Resources

The following are additional resources to help build your budgeting muscles.

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