Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, the show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills,

insight and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now while building a plan

for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

My name is Joshua and I am your host.

I am your fellow journeyman, fellow Voyager,

down this path towards financial freedom.

And I want to share with you some things

that I have found useful in my own quest for financial freedom.

Specifically today I want to talk to you about the number.

But I want to talk to you about the number in a way different than usually this subject is addressed.

Most commonly when people think about the number, they think in terms of how many millions of dollars do I need in order to be financially

independent.

There's a place for that.

But the trouble is we have a hard time conceptualizing millions of dollars.

Very few of us have ever seen a million dollars. We've very rarely held a million dollars

in our hands.

Very rarely do we have the ability to grasp what the time and the effort were that were needed in order to accumulate a million dollars.

And so most commonly, this millions of dollars number floats into your brain, usually at the input of some financial

advisor or some financial writer, and then it floats right out again because it is a number that's hard to grasp. Well I'm a simple man and I like

to keep things in a way that I can grasp. So here's something that I have done over the years. I've taken my

numbers and I've translated them from millions of dollars into the smallest unit that I can conceive of, the smallest practical unit. For me, that

most useful number has been daily expense.

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