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The Jesse Mecham Show

248 - March to Your Own Drum

The Jesse Mecham Show

YNAB

Kids & Family, Education

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2016

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

It's your money (read: life), so march to your own drum.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, whinabbers. My name is Jesse Meekam, and this is podcast number 248 for Wyanam, where we teach you four

0:15.3

rules to help you stop living paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt and save more money.

0:20.9

The key, maybe, one of the keys is just to do your own thing, march to your own drum.

0:28.6

People often ask me mainly more kind of in the software space or the product space.

0:34.0

Why don't you do this, why don't you do that?

0:36.9

Basically, we just want to do budgeting.

0:39.4

And we want to do budgeting really, really well.

0:41.5

And frankly, there's tons of stuff we still need to do just to help

0:46.2

everybody with the product to be better at budgeting.

0:50.0

So I don't get terribly interested in mortgage handling or investment analysis or anything

0:56.9

like that.

0:58.1

We just want to be the best at budgeting and that's what keeps us motivated. That's what's been keeping us going for quite a while.

1:06.0

So it goes back to kind of your own budgeting and you have to be honest with yourself about what you really want and you got to make sure you

1:13.9

you're being your own self I did a whiteboard Wednesday a while ago talking about

1:17.7

kind of keeping up with the Joneses and the social stuff that we see and how we're basically only seeing people's highlight real

1:26.4

and how they can give us a tainted view on what everyone else is doing and what we feel like we should be doing. One of my good friends, Mark Butler

1:34.1

always talks about how you shouldn't, this is hard to say, stop shooting all over yourself.

1:40.2

We should, we should, we should, and it's not very motivating to do that it's not very healthy

1:45.9

march to your own drum so when it comes to budgeting how you spend your money which is essentially

1:50.3

how you spend your life. Do your own thing.

1:53.6

Don't let other people dictate what it should be.

1:57.0

You do your own thing.

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