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The Jesse Mecham Show

Daily Reconciliation and Gardening

The Jesse Mecham Show

YNAB

Kids & Family, Education

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

The attentive gardener notices the small things. The way plants grow, flourish, and wither on a daily basis. He knows that weeds are easily dispatched when pulled daily. The gardener plays a long game, but sees each move in detail. 

 

Budgeting is no different. The attentive budgeter notices small things, finds small efficiencies there, because she checks in often. She knows that it's easier to correct course when her budget is moving in the wrong direction, because she watches carefully and often. The daily reconciliation becomes a joy, not a chore.

 

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0:00.0

Hello, Wineabbers. My name is Jesse Meekum, and this is podcast number 431 for

0:09.4

Wineab, where we teach you four rules to help you stop him in paycheck to

0:11.8

paycheck, get out of debt and save more money.

0:15.5

I talked a couple weeks ago about some gardening.

0:18.0

I know we talked about, you know, everyone's on a gardening craze.

0:21.5

I read the New York Times that gardening is a thing

0:25.8

and I think it's great because I've always been a hobbyist and have and enjoy every aspect of it.

0:32.6

Everything about gardening is slow.

0:35.6

And so when you're in the tech field, like I am,

0:37.7

everything's fast and you want it now now now now,

0:39.5

and then gardening you put a seed in the ground.

0:42.1

I shouldn't say ground. My dad would, he would say,

0:45.0

don't say ground, say soil. But you put a seed in the soil, and you put some water on it, and you kind

0:50.9

of tilt your head to one side and think really is that all it takes well it kind of is and then you just have to watch it

0:59.7

what's interesting is if you walk around your garden, if you're growing something, and if you do it daily, you actually start to notice changes that you would miss otherwise.

1:13.5

And weeding done daily is so easy.

1:17.9

Watching something grow daily, you start

1:20.5

to appreciate the amount of time that 24 hours really is for a plant and you can notice a change from whoa this thing's really struggling to I was

1:30.7

underwatering it give it a little water the next day, it's better.

1:34.1

You can notice growth in 24 hours.

1:37.1

There are all kinds of details that you notice as you're visiting your garden daily. And you know where I'm going with this?

1:45.0

When you reconcile daily, you knew I was going here.

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