Hello, whinabbers, my name is Jesse Meekham with another episode of the

whinab podcast and I am here each week to obsess out loud about spending,

purposefully saving aspirationally and giving joyfully.

It all comes down to just four simple habits.

But I must say these habits rules principles all revolve around this little thing we call money and one of Wineb's claims I talked about this maybe slightly last week is that we can change your relationship

with money and I've talked a lot about how we want money to be you.

I want you to see money as just a representation of all your blood, sweat, tears, effort, and

caloric expenditure.

But I want to go a little deeper with it today perhaps.

Sometimes you can use money to provide excuses

or to not think deeply about something.

And how often have you heard someone say,

you know, some dream they have.

And I'm not saying like, like I'm going to win the lottery like that some you know

unbelievably improbable dream but just like oh man I'd love to go there someday or I'd you know

I'd love to I'd love to see some exotic island someday,

something where it's, you know, it's possible,

it's plausible.

And then you have them say, you know, I just can't afford it, just don't have the money for it.

And it's an interesting observation that I've made how often money runs in and I'm going to kind of speak of money not in the

Wienab way but kind of in our old school way,

where money is this separate thing, separate from us,

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