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wealthier and wiser. Better investing starts here. Today's episode title is

Cleaning out the garage. Let's get started. I'm going to start my diet tomorrow, you say as you reach

for another slice of pizza. How many times have you said that to yourself? Or perhaps your

New Year's resolution was to exercise. Did you actually start exercising? Or maybe you're

fit and eat healthy and don't face these challenges like the rest of us mere mortals. Well, go walk into your garage.

Take a look around.

See that old aquarium, or maybe that lawnmower

from 1985 that just needs a little work?

You know you need to clean house.

You know what you have to do, but you don't do anything about it. As humans, we love to put off decisions for the future, often to our own detriment.

But what does any of this have to do is investing?

Here's two phrases we hear all the time.

Meab, I like your fun, but it's run up a lot,

so I'm just going to wait until it pulls back a little bit before I buy. Or how about Meb I like your fun but it's

struggled recently so I'm just going to wait until it recovers before I buy or

here's another one.

These markets seem volatile and I want to see how this geopolitical event plays out.

So I'm just going to wait until things are more certain before I buy.

In all three cases, the investor

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