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The Jesse Mecham Show

Adapt or Die

The Jesse Mecham Show

YNAB

Kids & Family, Education

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Of the Four Rules, is one more important than the others? Is there one rule to rule them all? In the past, Jesse has argued that rules 2-4 are essentially derivatives of Rule One. But perhaps there's another contender -- Rule Three: Roll with the Punches. Life is all about rolling with the punches, adapting to ever-changing stresses and forces in our environments. Budgeting, Jesse argues, is no different.

 

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0:00.0

Hello, Wine Amber's, my name is Jesse Meakum and this is another episode of the Wine

0:08.4

Amber podcast where we teach you four rules to help you stop them paycheck to paycheck,

0:11.7

get out of debt and save more money.

0:14.1

Is one rule more important than the others?

0:17.1

Every rule is just a derivative of rule one, right?

0:19.7

But is rule one the most important rule?

0:22.7

Give every dollar a job and then give every dollar a job when those jobs are larger and

0:26.9

less frequent and that's rule two.

0:28.4

And then give every dollar a job when your information is changed.

0:31.4

That's rule three and then give some of your dollars the job of just waiting, of aging,

0:36.3

of pausing, of sitting, of resting.

0:39.8

That's rule four.

0:40.8

You just step back from the financial edge, remove a little stress from your life.

0:45.8

But I want to say today that rule three might be the secret sauce.

0:53.2

Darwin say, and I'm no history of biology expert by any stretch.

0:59.0

But wasn't it all about surviving or dying, adapting or dying, evolving or dying?

1:05.8

And isn't rule three just basically saying adapt or die?

1:10.2

Adapt your money plan or die?

1:12.4

Now we don't say it was so much morbidity attached to it.

1:15.8

But the idea that you must always be adapting is correct.

1:22.0

That is perfect because in life, we must always be adapting.

1:27.2

Nature always adapts.

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