Hello, whinabers. My name is Jesse Meekham with another episode of the

whinab podcast and I'm here each week to obsess out loud about spending

purposefully saving aspirationally and and even giving joyfully.

It all comes down to just four simple habits.

And I'm going to start us off.

This is an Ask Jesse episode about that idea of habits.

Cornell said last episode, and this was from a while ago because you all know I'm a little behind my goal is to go to inbox zero today

You obsessed about not following four rules for a year the four four rules. And you admitted that you

failed or rather your experiment didn't yield results you were hoping for. So are

rules habits for you. Habits are followed no matter what. No thinking

required their habits. You follow them

without knowing. If you didn't follow were they really habits or just rules. A

penny for your thoughts. And then they say they hear me from across the ocean. I

don't know which ocean, but from far away. That is true. I don't

think habits stay automatic. I think, like yes, they are followed no matter what yeah without thinking yes to a degree but I don't think it's odd I think we can lose them just like we can gain them and that was what happened with us I have no doubt during that year and now that it's a little fuzzy for me but I have no doubt that we got worse and

worse as time on like the habits faded and I think they can fade otherwise wouldn't

it be glorious if you could just construct a habit and you know do the 21 days or

84 or whatever it takes and then be like check done it will never stop that would be

awesome so the reason that they're not rules or maybe they're not rules like the reason that we're messing around with this is

It we really are changing someone's mindset and when you talk about

changing how someone thinks about money is that really because like

their thinking is different and it's that's expressed through following the rule.

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