A Guaranteed Method for Hitting Your Goals: De-Compartmentalize Your Life

The Money with Katie Show

Money with Katie

Self-improvement, Education, Business, Investing, How To

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In a hyper-individualistic culture, it can feel like all the important parts of your life are at odds with one another: You may want to socialize regularly, spend time with family, save money, crush it at work, and exercise frequently, but as that one quippy girlboss coffee mug slogan reminds us: There are only 24 hours in the day (and something about Beyoncé). What’s an ambitious person to do, especially when the overwhelm of big goals makes you want to throw in the towel, melt into a Netflix puddle, and nap? There’s only one sustainable solution: integration. Learn more about our sponsor, TaxAct: https://www.taxact.com/moneywithkatie Transcripts can be found at podcast.moneywithkatie.com. — Mentioned in the Episode New Year Annual Review: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K2P_yL1Ah976P7MLicb55wgY2DY-39jP3Lvp810H6HQ/edit Nat Eliason on De-Atomization: https://blog.nateliason.com/p/de-atomization-is-the-secret-to-happiness Statistic on Single-Person Households in the US: https://www.statista.com/statistics/242022/number-of-single-person-households-in-the-us/ — Follow Along at Money with Katie: https://moneywithkatie.com/ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MoneywithKatie Follow Money with Katie! - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moneywithkatie/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/moneywithkatie Subscribe to The Money with Katie Newsletter - Sign up for free today: https://www.morningbrew.com/money-with-katie/subscribe/2 Follow the Brew! - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/morningbrew/ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/MorningBrew - TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@morningbrew Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's not shocking to me that that would become a default in an economy.
0:05.5	And again, capitalism loves atomized individuals because they're the perfect consumers, because
0:10.4	in the absence of connection and in the absence of all of those free, fulfilling, enjoyable
0:16.0	activities that give you that long, stable, balanced mix of dopamine and serotonin, well,
0:22.9	you're going to be constantly consuming for quick hits.
0:31.0	Welcome back to this week's episode of The Money with Katie Show, Rich Family.
0:35.9	That was our guest Chelsea Fagan on a previous episode about self-care, but I felt like it
0:40.6	was so super appropriate for this episode because it was all about the way that an individualist,
0:47.6	late capitalist society tends to atomize us.
0:51.5	At the end of December, I had embarked on the nerdiest, most demanding, new year annual
0:58.2	review process that I've ever done.
1:06.0	So a friend of mine sent me this guide that he was using, we'll link it in the show notes.
1:09.8	And after a cursory scroll of the 18 page multi-step process that began with e-house keeping,
1:17.2	like get to inbox zero, clean out all your note-taking apps, and then end it with this elaborate
1:22.5	assessment of all your pillars of your life I almost failed.
1:27.9	I was like this is too much and the fear and the overwhelm was just seeping in as I scrolled
1:33.2	through it and I thought I just don't want to take the time to do this.
1:37.4	But then I paused to interrogate the sense of overwhelm.
1:42.6	Like what was I afraid of?
1:44.0	Why didn't I want to spend a couple of weeks just slowly chewing through it?
1:48.8	Like if I was going to set these crazy goals of earn a million dollars or beyond Forbes
1:53.3	30 under 30, it was probably worthwhile to spend some time assessing the big picture,
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