Pay Yourself First
Moving savings out on payday before any spending happens — treating your future as the first bill, not the leftover.
Pay yourself first inverts the usual order. Instead of saving whatever survives the fortnight, an automatic payment moves savings out the moment pay lands. Spending then adapts to what remains — and it reliably does.
It works because it removes the daily decision. Nobody re-decides their rent each week; putting savings in the same category gives it the same reliability.
Goals in Owdyn build the contribution into Safe to Spend, so "paying yourself" is already subtracted from the number you spend against.
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