Hello, Wienabbers. My name is Jesse Meekham and this is Podcasts,

number 389 for Wienab, where we teach you four rules to help you stop

of paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt and save. And Yeah, we've just been chatting about a lot of different things, but today let's hit the basics.

So basic in fact, that I want to talk about Rule 1.

The reason Rule 1 is Rule 1 is Rule 1 is because it is the most important rule.

Every other rule is actually just a subset of that first rule.

Rule 1 is to give every dollar a job. Let's break it down word for word. Give. But you

know you're bestowing. It's it's you being benevolent and it implies that you're in control it implies that you get

to decide you are the benefactor and you can basically tell those jobs that you own full and

outright you can just give them the job that you want them to do so So you give, because you're in control.

You are the supreme czar of this situation.

So you give. You don't assign, you give. You're being kind, right? And you're being

thoughtful and you're being benevolent. So you give every, you give every dollar a job let's talk about every you give every dollar a job let's talk about every you don't let a single dollar off the hook

because if you do then it does not keep its sanctity as a zero-based budget.

The trade-offs disappear, but if you're giving every dollar a job, that means every single dollar has a purpose, has some intent behind it

because the benevolent dictator has decided that's how it should be and has

given those jobs to those dollars.

So every single dollar has to have a job so that if you ever need the jobs for something else,

Rule 3, we'll talk about that in a couple weeks. You can feel the trade-off and

that feeling of the trade-off is probably the most important thing about budgeting, period.

But if you don't give every dollar a job,

then you aren't feeling that trade-off.

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