Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated providing you with the knowledge, skills,

insight and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now, while building a plan for

financial freedom in 10 years or less.

My name is Joshua Sheets, I'm your host, and today on the podcast we continue our series of financial

goals that everyone should set.

This is a series dedicated to shortish, simple podcasts devoted to one single foundational concept of a goal

that everyone should set. These are as close to universally applicable goals as I can come up with.

And the idea behind this series is that by giving you clear and specific goals, you are more

likely to accomplish a financial abundance by someone simply telling you

here's a goal you should set and here's why. So let's have a quick recap because

it's been a little while since we have visited this series.

Goal number one was get a job.

All else being equal, if you want to make progress financially, you begin by getting a job.

Goal two is when you get that job,

set a goal to live on half your income.

Spend no more than half your income.

Save half, spend half.

Just from the beginning, 50% of your income.

If you're not able to do that in the immediate here and now, work towards that.

Goal number three was give away 10% of your income.

We talked a lot about the enormous benefit

of consistently giving money away.

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