I used to dread opening my bank app. Not because I was broke — because I had no idea what was actually happening in there.

The fix wasn't a budget spreadsheet. It was a 15-minute weekly "money reset": same day, same time, every week, I check 3 numbers only:

1. What came in

2. What went out

3. What's left

That's it. No categorizing every coffee purchase. No guilt spiral.

After 8 weeks of doing this, the anxiety was just... gone. Not because my income changed — because the unknown became known. Anxiety lives in uncertainty, not in the number itself.

If you're avoiding your finances right now, you don't need a perfect system. You need a repeatable 15-minute ritual that turns "I don't know" into "I know exactly where I stand."

Try it for 3 weeks. Same day, same time. Report back — curious if this lands for anyone else the way it did for me.