The Psychology of Bookkeeping: How to Overcome Impulse Spending

Why should we track our expenses?
Tracking expenses help us to reduce or even eliminate spending that we might feel is taking up too much of our income, freeing that money up for something more meaningful, including savings.
However, numbers themselves are often less fun (than spending money a.k.a shopping.) If the idea of managing your personal finances feels daunting, it doesn’t have to be so stressful!
In this column, we want to share with you tips and tools to make keeping track of income and expenditures actually fun.

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Turn Everyday Actions into Exercise: Start with Climbing Stairs

More and more people realize the importance of building consistent exercise habits. The benefits of regular exercise to health are obvious. When many people think of exercise, gym training or HIIT is probably the first thing that comes to mind. In fact, simply having "walking" into your daily routine is a good way to keep active.
Walk as much as is reasonable for your lifestyle, and vary your activities to maintain your physical health. Building a routine of regular movement, even in short bouts, is beneficial to your well-being.
Compared to workouts, walking seems like a fairly straightforward activity that should require little planning or motivation. If you’re trying to start walking more, here are some tips for building a habit that will last.

Fitness

Frequent Headaches? You Might Just Need to Drink More Water

Have you given much thought to the role of water in a healthy lifestyle? Like many healthy habits, the goal of drinking a certain amount of water each day can get ignored sometimes.
Water is something you put into your body every day and is essential to both physical and mental health. Wondering how much water to drink? Struggling to stay hydrated throughout the busy routine? Building a sustainable water-drinking habit definitely takes time and effort, that's why in this column, we want to share with you some tips to make drinking water fun, to accompany you, and keep you motivated!
Grab your glass, take a sip of water, and let's start hydrating in no time.

Hydration

Creating Your Own Cozy Reading Nook: Simple Tips to Enhance Your Quality of Life

For some people, there comes a time during adulthood when waking up in the morning becomes easier. For some of us, however, getting up early will be a lifelong struggle. Luckily, you can do a few things for yourself to make dragging your barely-awake self out of bed a little bit less stressful.
A successful wake-up starts the evening before. In this column, we want to share some doable tips for making sleeping, waking up, and daily routines more smooth, comfortable, and efficient.
Going one step further, we can try to make waking up on time interesting through some tools or habit-forming tips!

Sleep

If you’re not tracking your tasks, it can be hard to really grasp how much of a mental load you’re carrying by trying to keep everything in your head.
However, there are also many tips and tricks worth trying for creating a to-do list: if your to-do list is full of activities you dread doing, such as household chores or trying to achieve Inbox Zero, it’s no wonder you’re putting things off! Luckily, tedious or unpleasant routine tasks can be made more tolerable with a little fun thrown in.
Follow the tips and you’ll not only get started more easily, but you’ll feel great when you get to tick off your tasks at lightning speed.

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