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🗓️ 19 October 2015
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It's healthy and interesting to question all of your finances at least once a year. Here's why.
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0:00.0 | Hello my name is Jesse Meekham from Wineab where we teach you four rules to help you stop living |
0:13.6 | paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt, and save more money. You can question the |
0:19.6 | five dollar latte. I can't stand how often people give coffee as the example for frivolous |
0:26.3 | spending. Expensive coffee, five dollars a day, 365 days a year, you're talking about $1,875. |
0:37.0 | Don't check the math. |
0:41.0 | I don't think that's really the win. Yes you can question you can say oh I should |
0:45.8 | brown bag my lunch I should make a grocery list and consolidate my shopping |
0:50.9 | I should coupon I should you know, coupon, I should, you know, carpool, I should cut out the |
0:57.6 | latte, all of those things are great, great ways to save money. I don't mind the questioning. If you're looking at |
1:04.5 | Rule 1 and all your priorities are lined up, all your values and you see that |
1:08.8 | spending a ton of money on groceries is not really what you value, then yeah of course you change it. |
1:16.5 | But what I want you to do, don't just question the small easy things, like I'm going to, |
1:21.9 | I'll take a lunch to work now don't just question that |
1:23.9 | question the big fundamental structure of your finances just once a year you don't |
1:30.5 | always be questioning every big piece of your life, but once a year you can kind of sit down and you could say, |
1:37.5 | should we live here? |
1:39.0 | Should we drive the cars we're driving? |
1:41.5 | Should we have the kids and all the activities we have them in? Should I have |
1:47.0 | the job I have? Could we move closer? Could we move further? Could we move back with family? I don't know. Could we downsize? Is it time to upsize? |
1:59.0 | That kind of questioning where you're questioning the bigger components of your financial picture, |
2:05.0 | those questions and digging for those answers. |
2:09.0 | That's what really drives big financial change. |
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