Global objects & good practices?

First and foremost i’m prototyping a 2D Platformer and i’ve just started with the checkpoint mechanics. The way i’m handling checkpoints and world resets is that i made an object that acts as a CheckpointManager and i simply won’t destroy it when the player resets because of dying, this object also handles spawning the player in the right place.

So far so good, what i think might be a bad practice is the way i’m accessing this object/script, i’d like some feedback and if there’s a better way to access it.

checkpointManager = GameObject.Find ("Checkpoint Manager").GetComponent<CheckpointManager>();

This is how i do it, but this means i’ll always have to look for it as a GameObject and since i have quite a few of them when it expands even further it might affect the performance.

It’s faster to use FindWithTag and it’s even faster to create a static reference to the manager. All my managers have references to themselves because there’s always only one of them.
This is my usual “formula”:

public class CheckpointManager {
	public static CheckpointManager Instance { get; private set; }

	private void Awake() {
		Instance = this;
	}
}