If Money Were No Object... What Would Your New Years Resolution Be?

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🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

It's almost the New Year, and that means it's time to make resolutions! Jesse loves resolutions, goals, and goal planning, and he has some advice for you this year. Before you start setting your goals for next year, do this simple vision exercise first.

Imagine that money is no object, and you have unlimited funds to work with. What would you like to do next year? What kind of things would you need to arrange in your life to make that happen? Remember money is not an issue here -- if you need to hire someone to take care of certain tasks for you, or buy something to improve your efficiency, or anything else you can think of, you can do it! Write these things down on a sheet of paper.

You have already started the process of thinking about where to spend your energy in the New Year, and wherever your energy is going, your money should be too. Now, when you bring reality back in, which means limited funds and resources, you have a clearer idea of where to focus those resources in order to help you reach your goals.

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0:00.0	Hello, Wine Nibbers. My name is Jesse Meekam with another episode of the YNab podcast,
0:08.8	and I'm here each week to obsess out loud about spending purposefully, saving aspirationally,
0:13.2	and giving joyfully. It all comes down to just Wynab's four, just crazy simple rules.
0:20.9	Welcome, almost, to the new year.
0:25.4	I love New Year's resolutions.
0:28.0	I love goals, love goal setting,
0:29.5	love going after goals, love getting obsessed.
0:32.1	But there's a difference.
0:33.3	I don't actually, I don't mind quitting on goals either.
0:37.1	I quit trying to learn Japanese.
0:39.2	I quit trying to snatch 225 pounds.
0:42.1	I have no qualms about quitting.
0:44.7	But I love goals.
0:46.4	Even if I know it might be kind of fleeting,
0:49.0	I get excited at the possibility at what the goal might teach me.
0:53.8	Or I should say the pursuit of the goal.
0:55.8	But what I want to talk to you today about is actually more of the goal setting
1:00.7	and what the goal setting itself might teach you.
1:04.7	I would have you get out a blank piece of paper.
1:07.8	Do not do this on your phone or on a computer.
1:10.7	You want that brain
1:11.8	hand analog connection happening get out a piece of paper and a pencil if you're driving do this
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