... and most importantly, relax ...
As in life, constantly chasing the trim will bring you nothing but grief ....
Once you've flown a particular aeroplane quite a lot, you know how it will react to changes in attitude, power, etc - and what you'll need to do to co-ordinate with these changes. That's why you will see more experienced pilots trimming almost as soon as they've changed the flight parameters - they are anticipating the aeroplane's reaction to their inputs. Comes with practice.
But at your stage of the game, I think you need to learn to wait a little ... set your attitude and power, and then wait a little to see what the aircraft does - then trim your yolk forces away. As time goes by, your anticipation skills will become honed and, as has been said, you'll be doing it in automatic mode.
But for now, put a "WAL" (wait a little) in those PAT and APT acronyms ... and relax .....
FF
