Moving the Pine Needle
The Jesse Mecham Show
YNAB
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2018
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Is there an opportunity this season for you to try something briefly unsustainable to reach a goal?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Wine to help you stop living paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt and save more money. |
| 0:16.0 | If you've listened to this podcast for any length of time, you know that sometimes I ramble. |
| 0:19.2 | And last week was a bit of a ramble on the hassle and bustle of Christmas, but we got a bit of a |
| 0:23.8 | breakthrough there at the end as I was talking and talking and talking and |
| 0:26.8 | that was around the idea of looking out and letting just, yeah-priorityizing it's a lot like budgeting I guess |
| 0:36.2 | and at the end of the day we get so many people that write in and say you know |
| 0:39.6 | Wyanams helped me manage my day better, manage my time better. |
| 0:43.0 | And maybe that's what I was missing. |
| 0:44.6 | If I were to set out a Christmas, a season, |
| 0:48.2 | a holiday season, Christmas season time budget, |
| 0:51.1 | I don't know, what would it look like? How much time would I'd be spending optimizing for grabbing that |
| 0:56.2 | fake sale on Cyber Monday or perhaps being you you know, a little more of service. |
| 1:06.8 | So along those lines, I've been thinking on this for a bit. |
| 1:16.0 | And you guys know I'm a fan of moving the needle. It's where you do something extreme that's not sustainable in order to re-tool your |
| 1:22.3 | thinking, you know, you're kind of re-instrumenting things in your brain. |
| 1:27.0 | Maybe you're picking up a new mental model or at least honing one. |
| 1:31.0 | And you move the needle in that way so you do something extreme you know |
| 1:37.2 | it can't last but you feel something new and it kind of opens your eyes to new |
| 1:41.4 | possibilities people will do that with exercise with and it kind of opens your eyes to new possibilities. |
| 1:42.8 | People will do that with exercise, with eating, |
| 1:45.4 | doing cleanse things, with money, with spending fast |
| 1:51.2 | is a common occurrence, but you can do all sorts of stuff like this. |
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