Welcome to Radical Personal Finance. My name is Joshua Sheets, and on today's podcast, I want to share with you some important ideas about how to set appropriate goals, recognizing the fact that every single goal that is hard for you is easy for someone else.

What do you do about that? But first, as I record this, it's Friday, May 8, which means that this school year is coming to an end, and next school year is ready to be planned.

You know what?

It's one of the things that I find a little bit annoying and frustrating about the way a lot of people approach the ideas of children's school curriculum.

Basically, you buy it, you use it up,

use it for a year, and then you have to buy it again every year, new workbooks, new consumables,

every single year. Instead of basically building for yourself a family asset in terms of your library and your curriculum, you wind up with a subscription payment. And,

well, I guess maybe if you send that subscription payment to me, that might be nice someday.

But for now, I want you to buy an asset. I want to tell you about the math curriculum that

thinks differently about this called Life of Fred. There are no workbooks, no consumables.

Every single book that we sell at Life of Fred is a hardcover, hardcover Smyth Sown novel,

about a five-year-old math prodigy named Fred Gouse, who will teach your children math

by getting himself into one ridiculous adventure after another.

We go from kindergarten all the way through college, with one coherent, consistent story

where every single math concept is needed by Fred to solve some problem he's facing before it's ever taught.

Books are full of problems. You just work those problems in a separate

notebook or a separate piece of paper. And frankly, these books, I think, can last at least three

generations, if not more. So if you'd like to spend all in, say, about a thousand bucks,

you can purchase pretty much the whole curriculum for about a thousand bucks. You can use it like I

do through

about six children and through multiple generations. So as you're building your family library and

you're building your math curriculum, please consider that this year. If you're interested,

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