Writing A Letter from Your Future Self
The Jesse Mecham Show
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4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my name is Jesse Meekam with another episode of the Jesse Meekam show, |
| 0:16.1 | and I'm here each week to obsess out loud about you getting good at money, which means I am implying, |
| 0:22.2 | I am inferring, no, I'm implying, I'm not inferring, I'm implying that you might have been bad at |
| 0:26.6 | money at some point. Maybe you are right now and maybe you've stumbled upon this show and you don't |
| 0:31.7 | even know who this guy is. You can learn more at whinab.com slash jesse, but before you do that, |
| 0:36.7 | hang with me for a second. |
| 0:38.2 | My whole focus is to get you good at money. |
| 0:41.5 | And it's just a skill. |
| 0:43.8 | You just, you acquire it through practice, through a little bit of effort, through some awareness, |
| 0:48.0 | and we can get you good at money. |
| 0:51.5 | It means that your money does what you want it to do. It means that you don't have this |
| 0:56.7 | constant second guessing, nagging, that you actually don't even realize it's there, but once it's gone, |
| 1:01.9 | you realize it was there, and you feel kind of mad, but also so glad that you've turned things |
| 1:06.8 | around. It's not about earning more money. I mean, sure, who doesn't want that? But that does not |
| 1:11.9 | eliminate money worry. And when you are good at money, you will find that money worry is gone. You will |
| 1:17.9 | never worry about it again. Last week, we wrote a letter to our past self. And I'll admit, |
| 1:24.4 | I was given this assignment. And they said to write a letter to your future self, |
| 1:30.6 | maybe stick it in a time capsule, and then have your future self open it up if you remembered |
| 1:35.5 | where you buried that time capsule. And that is, that is an if for me. I misread this, |
| 1:42.5 | and I wrote a letter as if from the future to my present self, which is not the |
| 1:49.4 | assignment, but I so thoroughly enjoyed it that we're going to have to make a two-part series |
| 1:54.2 | into a three-part series because now I'm just going to be, you know, having correspondence |
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