419. My $4500 Christmas Lights Lesson
The Chris Harder Show
Chris Harder
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In This Episode You Will Learn About:
- Not apologizing for getting the things you want
- Knowing your hourly worth
- Pricing things based on what it's worth doing for you
- The hourly worth formula
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Show Notes:
I just spent $4500 to have Christmas lights set up on our house. As embarrassing as that is to say, there's a very important lesson in this for you: depending on your financial situation, this number can sound reasonable or it can sound absurd. The important thing is that this number makes sense for my situation, and I'm going to explain why.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I want you to stop apologizing for the things that you want in your life. I want you to create a life this year |
| 0:06.3 | That allows you to have what you want in your life and I want you to stop working for less than you want to. |
| 0:13.0 | Damn it, life is too short. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome, everybody, this is for the love of money where we are making you |
| 0:24.5 | unapologetic about your pursuit of success by sharing the tools, tips and |
| 0:29.4 | stories of those who have already made it. |
| 0:32.5 | My name is Chris Harder, |
| 0:34.0 | and each week I will bring you incredible guests |
| 0:37.0 | in order to prove that when good people make good money, |
| 0:40.0 | they do great things. Hey everybody, welcome back to another amazing episode of For the Love of Money. |
| 0:50.0 | It's another Money Monday. |
| 0:52.0 | We're going to talk about all things money, how to make money, |
| 0:54.6 | how to create more money, how to save money and the best practices to do with your |
| 0:58.8 | money today. I'm actually going to tell you a little story, maybe what I'm even |
| 1:02.2 | a little bit embarrassed about and I'll explain why in a minute, but I can tell you a story as to why right now as I record this I spent over $4,000 on Christmas lights. |
| 1:13.6 | Yes, as I record this right now, |
| 1:16.0 | there are a group of men out in my yard |
| 1:20.0 | setting up the greatest Christmas display of Christmas lights and it cost me well over $4,000. |
| 1:26.5 | By fact, I've got a confession. I hope that my wife actually doesn't listen. |
| 1:30.0 | I know she never listens to my podcast and that doesn't make her good or bad we're just too busy but so I know she probably won't hear this but I told her it was 3,900 so it sounded better but it was really like 4,500 bucks. |
| 1:43.1 | Yes, I spent $4,500 on people setting up Christmas lights |
| 1:46.9 | in my house. |
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