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The YNAB Podcast

122 - Consumption vs. Creation

The YNAB Podcast

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4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2014

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Create more than you consume, and develop a bias toward action.

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0:00.0

Hello, Wine Ebers. My name is Jesse Meekham, this is podcast number 122 for you need a budget where we teach you four rules to help you stop living paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt, and save more money.

0:22.0

I had a request a couple weeks back to talk about top financial

0:27.8

resources that I use that I refer to magazines, books, podcasts.

0:34.4

The irony is I don't have many.

0:38.5

And honestly, I don't read too much

0:41.5

in the personal finance space. I do enjoy posts from Mr Money Mustache because

0:47.2

he's so wildly quote unquote extreme, although I know him and he's not nearly as extreme when you get to know him.

0:56.2

But he writes in an extreme way, and I find that engaging.

1:00.4

So I do read his post, but thankfully they come so infrequently that I'd not sitting there consuming his posts all day long every day.

1:08.0

I do not read money magazines. I find them to be just boring and the absolute same thing said seven ways

1:17.8

from Sunday is that how that goes six ways anyway they just rehash the same stuff over and over

1:26.3

Pick up a money magazine cover like pick up any money magazine and then go back a year and pick one up and then compare the

1:34.4

compare the covers where they talk about this or that thing.

1:37.8

It's obnoxious.

1:39.8

I read the blog of Betterment because they put out good stuff on what they're doing and I invest with them so I care.

1:47.0

You know I mean they run my portfolio.

1:50.0

On Twitter I don't follow too many financial people. I follow J.D. Roth. He's, he writes a lot less about

1:58.6

credit card this and get at that and writes more than money, you know, bigger life things and I enjoy that.

2:07.8

I happily read or view or learn about anything that B.J. Fogg is writing about or any books that he

2:16.5

recommends and that's along the lines of behavior change, building habits that

2:21.7

are positive, things like that.

2:23.8

That obviously impacts me from a business standpoint

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