225 - Moments that Force You to Question Your Priorities
The Jesse Mecham Show
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4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2016
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
The budget should force a "revisiting" of priorities without necessarily having your hand forced externally.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Winehambers. My name is Jesse Meekham and this is podcast number 225 for Wyanam. |
| 0:14.4 | Where we teach you four rules to help you stop living paycheck to paycheck, |
| 0:17.8 | get out of debt and save more money. |
| 0:21.1 | We just recently had a large, large family get together and I come from a large family and that |
| 0:30.5 | family comes from a large family when you combine all these large families together. |
| 0:34.0 | Well you just have one big large family and it just gives you a moment, you know, it kind of forces you to... just |
| 0:45.0 | think about your priorities. |
| 0:47.0 | And I do feel a little bit like a broken record |
| 0:49.0 | because priorities seem to be all we talk about, |
| 0:52.0 | but that's kind of everything. So when you get |
| 0:57.6 | kind of caught in the thick of things and you need to reassess, you can always just pull |
| 1:02.0 | back out of the thick of it and ask yourself what your |
| 1:05.4 | priorities are when you're dealing with a bunch of stuff at work when you're |
| 1:10.0 | wondering about a career change going going back to school, having another baby, getting married, |
| 1:16.8 | who knows what it is, who knows, but these big, big or small changes, you have this anchor that is what really matters to you and those |
| 1:25.9 | priorities are what really matter to you. That's why people feel so much |
| 1:31.4 | discontent when it comes to their money, |
| 1:34.2 | it's because priorities are such a big deal |
| 1:37.0 | and our money for the most part isn't lined up with them. |
| 1:40.5 | So you feel this a lot of discontent and you feel that it's friction there and it usually comes |
| 1:46.8 | to a head when there's you know some kind of a big event that gives you a wake-up call And that's where if you can create smaller events that are more frequent, we call |
| 1:59.1 | monthly budget meetings, where you're reassessing your priorities automatically and you don't need a big |
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