Arbitrary Milestones
The Jesse Mecham Show
YNAB
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
It's common to set milestones for paying down debt. They're usually big, round numbers like $500, $1k, $5k, $10k. At the end of the day though, the goals are arbitrary. It's just a number, a stepping stone, toward the greater goal.
So if the day to day grind of fiscal responsibility is getting to you, change your milestones! Maybe it's $749, or $362.54. It's all arbitrary, right? Have fun with the game, and make it work for you. Set a new milestone -- whatever you like -- and celebrate when you reach that new number.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, why members. My name is Jesse Meekham and this is podcast number 400 for |
| 0:09.8 | why now. Where we teach you four rules to help you stop from paycheck to |
| 0:12.2 | paycheck, get out of debt and save more money |
| 0:15.5 | Today we'll be having a very very special episode because this is the 400th episode and I'm just kidding |
| 0:21.6 | There's nothing special about this episode. |
| 0:23.5 | Lindsay who is over our marketing is probably disappointed as she listens to this |
| 0:28.0 | but I found it funny because I saw that 400 was coming up I even alluded to it last week ever so slightly and my first thought was hey |
| 0:37.5 | 400 episodes 400 weeks of a podcast scary to think about those of you that are joining us now and |
| 0:46.6 | have binge listened to three to five minute podcasts of me for 400 divided by 52 just shy of eight years. |
| 0:56.4 | There's something disturbing about that. |
| 0:57.9 | But that's pretty crazy if you've binge listening that much. |
| 1:01.1 | I can't even remember what I said last week let alone |
| 1:03.9 | eight years ago but for those of you that have been along the ride the whole time |
| 1:08.3 | thank you and for those you that are just coming along for the first time |
| 1:11.8 | thank you but don't go back |
| 1:13.0 | and binge list and that's creepy now for the 400th episode I thought it would be |
| 1:17.2 | very appropriate to talk about something that fits right in with this idea that this |
| 1:21.2 | episode is super special and that is the idea of |
| 1:24.4 | establishing arbitrary out of thin air out of left field lines milestones |
| 1:32.2 | markers goals milestones, markers, goals, and then seeing what happens. |
| 1:37.0 | So, we declared that 400 was a very special episode |
| 1:40.1 | and you can feel already that it is. |
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