309 - You Have a Spending Problem
The Jesse Mecham Show
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4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2018
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
That's right. If you're average (and you are), then you have a spending problem--not an income problem.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Winebbers. My name is Jesse Meekam, and this is podcast number 309 for |
| 0:09.0 | Wineb, where we teach you four rules to help you stop if in paycheck to get out of debt and save more money. |
| 0:16.4 | A lot of people say when they're first starting out with their budget, I know we have a lot of people |
| 0:20.9 | at this time of year that are just starting out with their budget or |
| 0:23.0 | restarting, fresh starting, and welcome back, welcome for the first time, we're |
| 0:26.2 | happy you're here. At any rate, a lot of people say, well, I just, I don't |
| 0:31.5 | earn enough. I just don't earn enough and there are people in that |
| 0:36.3 | situation most definitely however I speak to averages and you Mr. |
| 0:42.2 | average Joe or Ms. Average Jane, you are not average. |
| 0:46.0 | Well in this case, yes you are. |
| 0:48.5 | And if you're average, then you do not have an income problem here in the United States and if you're listening to this |
| 0:53.8 | podcast. You do not have an income problem, you have a spending problem, and it's not for me to judge |
| 1:01.7 | and decide what you should be spending your money on. |
| 1:04.7 | I just know, based on years and years and years of experience and tens and tens and tens of |
| 1:09.9 | thousands of use cases, that when people start to budget they line their money up with their priorities and there's money that just doesn't leave anymore |
| 1:20.8 | Sticks around and that's the money that used to go toward whatever. We aren't |
| 1:27.0 | really sure, right? It just kind of was frittered away. It just kind of disappeared, walked off on its own. |
| 1:33.0 | But when you start intentionally deciding what your money will do, |
| 1:38.0 | it turns out that you have fewer intentions |
| 1:41.0 | than you did purchases. |
| 1:43.7 | And those intentions simply cost less. |
| 1:47.2 | Just awareness. |
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