258 - How To Start Over
The Jesse Mecham Show
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🗓️ 16 January 2017
⏱️ 2 minutes
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With budgeting, the key might be to start over.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, whinabbers my name is Jesse Meekam and this is podcast number 258 for Wiena. |
| 0:14.0 | Where we teach you four rules to help you stop living paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt, and save |
| 0:18.2 | more money. |
| 0:20.0 | Now last week we talked about resolution proof in your budget in the sense that you don't go for perfection, you go for consistency. |
| 0:27.0 | Another great idea in sticking with your new years resolution is to start your budget over as much as you need to just as much as you |
| 0:36.2 | absolutely need to in order to get it not right to just be doing it |
| 0:41.1 | consistently when you want to start your budget over maybe you want don't want to start just be doing it consistently. |
| 0:42.8 | When you want to start your budget over, maybe you don't want to start everything |
| 0:45.4 | over, we built in a feature because we know how critical it is that people should start |
| 0:50.5 | over. |
| 0:51.6 | So you just go up to the top left and you choose make a |
| 0:54.4 | fresh start. That way it keeps all your categories the same, keeps your |
| 0:58.2 | accounts the same, but you have a blank slate you can then adjust categories, |
| 1:02.1 | set them up however you'd like, and just have |
| 1:06.2 | that blank slate. |
| 1:07.8 | You also have a big pile of money there and you have to reassign all of that money to different jobs and that's a good |
| 1:16.0 | exercise when starting over in really thinking through your priorities what |
| 1:20.6 | are the jobs your dollars need to do? What do you truly care about? |
| 1:25.0 | So as starting over quitting, no quite the contrary. |
| 1:28.0 | Starting over is starting. |
| 1:30.0 | And that is exactly what you need to do again and again. |
| 1:33.4 | Until it just becomes habit. |
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