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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

Moment 148: Guarantee Financial Freedom! The 4 Numbers You NEED To Be Tracking: Ramit Sethi

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.613.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In this moment, personal finance expert Rami Sethi breaks down the 4 finance numbers everyone needs to know and what exactly a ‘rich life’ is. Ramit says that most people don’t have even the most basic understanding of money, compare this to other areas of life such as driving, where we need to know the rules of the road before putting a key in the ignition. However, personal finance is actually incredibly simple and Ramit says that the four numbers you need to track are: your fixed costs like rent and groceries, savings, investments, and guilt free spending. From these numbers, Ramit says that he can see what are a person’s priorities and outlook on life. But more revealing is someone’s idea of their ‘rich life’. This is what a person’s life would look like if they finally reached the level of wealth they are chasing. Ramit says too often people’s answer to what their rich life is vague, for instance, saying they want to be able to do what they want when they want, or to have freedom. These answers are so vague as people have never really thought about this question before, but Ramit say they need to think about this potential future deeply and in detail so that they can truly envision it. Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/hzKpXWPk1Gb Watch the Episodes On Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/%20TheDiaryOfACEO/videos Ramit- https://www.instagram.com/ramit/?hl=en-gb https://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

When you talk about the language of money, what do you mean? I mean understanding the

0:07.8

nuts and bolts of money. So just the same way that we all learn how to drive. We learn the rules of the road, when to use our turn signals.

0:15.8

Most of us do not have even the equivalent knowledge of money.

0:19.5

For example, the basic language of money would be what percentage of your income are you

0:25.2

saving and why? What percentage are you investing and why? When will you have a

0:31.6

hundred thousand dollars or five,000 or a million dollars?

0:35.0

And what will that money get you?

0:39.0

Because just having a million dollars in the bank is pointless.

0:42.0

What does it get you specifically? This is the basic

0:46.0

language of money. You've got to know your key four six numbers in your life, not

0:52.0

many, just a few, but once you understand those

0:54.8

numbers it's like understanding the speed limit. Understanding the speed limit

0:59.6

means you understand a lot. There's a rule of the road if you go too fast what's going to happen, why do these rules exist?

1:06.2

And these rules are similar in money. You can break them. That's okay, but you got to

1:11.5

understand the rules first.

1:13.0

What are those numbers that I need to know?

1:15.0

There's four numbers that I really like to track.

1:17.0

I track these myself and these are the numbers I encourage.

1:20.0

The first is your fixed costs.

1:22.0

Okay. Those would be your rent or your mortgage.

1:25.1

Your in your any debt payments, groceries, the money that you are spending every

1:31.4

single month that is essentially fixed.

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