Hello, my name is Jessie Meekam and this is podcast number 72 for

you need a budget where we teach you four rules to help you stop living paycheck

to paycheck and get out of debt, and save more money. Today, I've had the thought,

a wish, I wish. You know when you play video games, I have to confess that I haven't played video games for a long time, but back in the day, when you were fighting an opponent, they'd have a little bar that would go down as you

would win the fight. They would take away their power or health or whatever it is.

And the bar would maybe be green at first.

And then as you were beating your opponent,

it would go yellow and get smaller and smaller

and then go red and then be empty.

And the bar was always hovering over your opponent.

So if you were in a group of,

get a group of opponents, you could kind of see

which of those monsters or whatever were healthy and which were hurting.

And we kind of have that today but it gives us wrong information and the thing that people use for

those financial health meters is cars and houses. cars more than houses because they're you're driving around you're seeing people in their cars and you're making value judgments and you're able to look at a person's car and say, oh, that person makes money.

That person's healthy financially.

Well, that person just cut me off.

Oh, man, that person doesn't make a lot of money. Maybe they're

driving a really old car or whatever. But you make judgments like that. You do the

same thing when you see where someone lives, you make judgments, and you do the same thing

when you see what people wear. You think you don't, but you do. And all the times you'll try not to judge people and I think that's a good ambition

where you'll say well you know I don't want to judge a book by its cover I don't want to judge a book by its cover. I don't want to make assumptions because you feel bad

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