It Has Nothing, and Everything, to Do with Spending

The Jesse Mecham Show

YNAB

Kids & Family, Education

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

"You need to spend less money." "Money's not everything." But what if you don't need to spend less money. And what if money is everything? In today's episode Jesse offers up the idea that money is you -- the sum product of your energies and desires -- and if that's true, then you don't need to spend less money. You need to spend more of you on you! The more you can engage with the question of "what do I want my money to do" the more joy spending can bring you, because ultimately that question is "what do I want to do?"

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0:00.0	Hello, whinevers. Welcome to another episode of the whineb podcast. My name is Jesse Meekin and I am here each week to obsess how loud about spending purposefully, saving
0:17.2	aspirationally, and even giving joyfully. It all comes down to just four simple habits.
0:27.0	What do you guys think about that one?
0:28.0	All right, on to more important things.
0:29.7	I appreciate the emails about the changing intro outro after I'll get it to where I like it
0:34.2	We're gonna talk to the whole world y'all the whole world is just thinks about money completely wrong period everyone except you and I, is stuck in the wrong mindset.
0:46.4	It's a mindset built around one of,
0:51.4	it's like all about just restriction about being quote responsible like what
0:56.3	responsible is is code for I don't know it's like it's like cheap shorthand for
1:02.2	someone saying you should do something you've done
1:04.7	something wrong you should do something right you should be more responsible like what do you
1:07.4	what do you even mean by responsible and but but then people do like they like I should be more
1:12.2	responsible but they really did they fill out of control and so everyone's looking for this some kind of control over their money and if you listen to the podcast recently it may be a little bit over yourself.
1:24.4	And so everyone's just asking, how do I keep myself from spending money?
1:30.1	Like that's where they land is I'm not being responsible, I need to be I need to control more so I'm how do I stop spending?
1:37.2	What a no? No that's not it at all.
1:40.8	Because then when they do actually when when you do spend, when you do spend, because you will, like in seven minutes, when you do spend, you feel guilty at best, you second guess it constantly, and this is no way to spend your life no pun intended
1:55.3	a perhaps the pun was intended but the world just doesn't imagine how things could be
2:01.8	maybe a little bit different than this.
2:04.0	It's just like, you're not being responsible, stop spending, okay I'll stop spending,
2:07.0	I'll stop spending, dang I spent, I'm second guessing everything.
2:10.0	It's like, couldn't we just think about it a little bit differently?
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