Rule One and the Pursuit of Nothing
The Jesse Mecham Show
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4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2023
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Jesse challenges the idea of constantly pursuing something financially. For many of us in the modern world, our default is to always be chasing something -- more things, more experiences, more retirement funds, more debt paid down. Some of these things are a net good, some... maybe not. Jesse reminds us that our financial life doesn't always have to be in pursuit of something. It's ok to just let your money support your life, and nothing more. Can you do that, just for a little while?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Wine Embers, my name is Jesse Meekum with another episode of the Wine Em Podcast |
| 0:08.7 | where we teach you four rules to help you stop paying, to paycheck, get out of debt |
| 0:11.6 | and save more money. |
| 0:14.6 | The trick to all this is to follow the four rules. |
| 0:17.6 | And rule one is to give every dollar a job. |
| 0:21.8 | And this is just food for thought today. |
| 0:24.1 | As is always the case, everyone. |
| 0:27.4 | Food for thought. |
| 0:28.6 | So the buffet is here. |
| 0:31.6 | And if you just always run for the macaroni, that's fine, that's what some people do. |
| 0:38.0 | But it's all available for you to sample as you'd like. |
| 0:41.8 | And today is certainly no different. |
| 0:45.6 | I was thinking about the pursuit of nothing, honestly. |
| 0:49.8 | I think humans are wired to pursue, we're wired to be anxiously engaged and good things. |
| 0:57.9 | But when it comes to finances and thinking back through the book that I read called |
| 1:04.6 | Wanting and why we want what we want, it just made me wonder if I couldn't look at |
| 1:13.2 | mind and july's categories or jobs and just kind of ask ourselves, what does this, |
| 1:21.9 | you know, like, is there anything here that we don't need to pursue? |
| 1:27.3 | Should we stop pursuing? |
| 1:29.2 | Could we just kind of be and not always have something on the horizon, something that |
| 1:33.4 | we're working toward? |
| 1:35.9 | Another great book that I've mentioned in the past is called Four Thousand Weeks. |
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