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The Jesse Mecham Show

224 - Think Long, Act Now: Savings & Your Budget

The Jesse Mecham Show

YNAB

Kids & Family, Education

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2016

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Why saving for its own sake can be dangerous.

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0:00.0

Hello, whinabbers. My name is Jesse Meekham and this is podcast number 224 for why now.

0:14.0

Where we teach you four rules to help you stop living paycheck to paycheck,

0:17.0

get out of debt and save more money.

0:20.0

When you think about saving, saving for its own sake can be dangerous.

0:24.0

I have with me in studio again Todd Curtis, the Chief Customer Officer for Wineab.

0:28.0

He obsesses about you learning how to obsess effectively over your money. Without further ado, Todd Curtis.

0:37.0

All right, I'm back with Todd Curtis again. He's the chief customer officer for Wienab.

0:42.2

He is in charge of making sure you get it and does a killer job with a

0:46.8

killer team that you have.

0:48.6

Thank you.

0:49.6

We want to talk today about one of the guides.

0:51.8

You called it Think long act now yeah and

0:56.0

you're not really just like turning a literary phrase there like kind of what what's

0:59.1

the what's the idea behind the title yeah that's one of my favorite

1:02.3

titles in the guides because the idea is that we really do want you to

1:07.0

think ahead. What are your dreams? What do you really want to accomplish with

1:11.3

this budget? You know, because your your ultimate goal is not just

1:14.8

paying off your electric bill. So we really want you to think long about those

1:17.4

things. But then once you identify what those are, the real difference in in reaching those goals does happen with your day-to-day

1:26.0

decisions so that's the act now yeah so I've got a okay we're gonna we're

1:30.9

gonna derail a little bit already but I had an

1:34.9

accounting teacher that talked about how his wife would say I want to they were like

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