Hello, Winebbers. My name is Jesse Meekham and this is podcast number 285 for Wineab, where we teach

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

As a team, we are looking hard at doing what we're calling clarity breaks.

And specifically for the executives I was stressing the need for

them to get out of their routine get out of their comfort zone get out of their

work zone not really comfort zone, but just get out of the hamster wheel that is work a lot of the time.

And go somewhere for a few hours maybe once a month maybe once a week maybe

30 minutes every morning and just sit with a legal pad and a pen and write and don't connect don't pull out your phone don't do anything fancy with

apps just write with your hand and a pen on a pad and the idea behind these

clarity breaks is that you just step out of the normal hum drum and you just let your mind kind of go.

And I was thinking about how this might apply to your budget, where you step out of your budgeting routine a little bit

and look at things with fresh eyes.

Sometimes for me, travel will do this.

I actually want to talk about this, maybe in a couple of about this maybe in a couple of

podcasts, maybe in a couple of weeks, but breaking out of your routine in

where you're going, what you're doing, kind of pushing yourself to see things a different way with the budget can bring new insights.

And we've talked a lot about different tactics you can do to kind of shake things up a little bit.

I like a clarity break for the budget once a year, but I'm

finding recently that maybe every six months is a little better. And I'm not saying you need

to fresh start your budget, which is a feature in WINAM

But I just mean that you go through line item by line item, you know category by category and just kind of question all those categories and question what they need to be

and really just question your core deepest held beliefs about what your money should be doing and just let it flow.

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