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Well, hey, you guys, if you're a regular around here, then you know that I talk a lot about budgeting when it comes to building wealth, because it's one of those essential steps that you really have to take to start that wealth building journey.

But if you're newer to my channel, then you may need a little bit of a handholding while you build your first budget.

Because listen, budgeting, it can be really simple, but it's also nice

to have that step-by-step support when you are developing a new habit for the first time.

So that's what we're going to do today.

I'm going to share how to create your first budget in five simple steps.

And if you have been budgeting, still stick around because I think it's so important

to rehear some of this because you could have lost one or two steps in the process.

And also make sure that you subscribe so you don't miss any content coming in the future.

All right. First, I want to be very transparent with you.

There was a brief time that I did not like budgeting. Yeah. Budgeting was probably the

hardest part of this whole financial journey, if you will, for me to get on board with and

actually see and enjoy it because I'm such a spender. I'm such a free spirit. And it always felt

like this like lots of details. It felt like, oh my gosh,

you can't have any fun. You can't go shopping. You have to say no to everything. The word budget

almost became a cuss word. And what I realized, though, when I was actually on a trip with Winston

and he was like, don't worry about the budget. I can take care of everything on this trip. You just

enjoy. That you would have thought would have given me such freedom. But at that point, we had been budgeting

pretty consistently for a few years. And the one time that I was told, don't worry about it,

you can just fly and be free. I actually found that it wasn't free. It was actually more stressful

not to have a budget. So now I am a firm believer. I love a budget because a budget

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