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Every Day Is Saturday Podcast For Motivation, Inspiration And Success

Motivational Minute: Lessons From My $2,000 Oil Change

Every Day Is Saturday Podcast For Motivation, Inspiration And Success

Self Improvement Coach Sam Crowley

Society & Culture, Entrepreneurship, Business, Self-improvement, Education

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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0:00.0

It's the motivational minute 60 seconds of awesome saw starting right now. Well, this isn't so awesome

0:06.8

Just drop my car off this morning for an oil change. That's it. Should be 50 bucks. Whatever at the dealership

0:12.0

It's gonna be two grand for your boy. I need a 30,000 mile check. I got a 2020 maxima

0:17.6

But come to find out I need four new tires

0:20.3

27 28,000 miles need four new tires. I don't know, but anyway can't afford not to get them

0:25.0

Didn't want to spend two grand here's the mindset always break it down got to chunk it down

0:29.5

I'm gonna throw it on a credit card

0:31.7

My next credit card bill statement comes out in about two weeks to beginning in November

0:36.3

So that gives me an extra about 15 days. No interest on that. No interest through 30 days

0:41.4

I got it's gonna be due the beginning of December

0:43.7

So I got 45 days or so interest-free to get this two grand paid off

0:48.4

Did the math that's $44 a day? That's it. Got to make an extra foot. Oh, it's just it's 44 47

0:55.2

Let's just round up to 45 bucks. I got to make heck let's round up to 50

0:59.2

So I got to make an extra $50 every day to make this thing just kind of be pain-free

1:05.2

No biggie when you break it down like that if I can't do another 50 bucks a day

1:09.6

There's something wrong. Okay, something wrong. I'm just I'm that that's on me at that point

1:13.3

So when problems come up chunk it down

1:16.3

It's gonna seem like a lot at first, but if you break it down just a little bit

1:20.1

I'm not saying I want to part with two grand nobody wants to part with two grand

1:23.2

But I have to gotta be safe got a drive got a cars got a tires at work

1:28.0

$50 a day 25 in the morning 25 in the afternoon chunk it down

1:33.3

Make the pain subside a little bit and then go back and focus go back and focus

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