Seeing how I evolved from the beginning to end of the journal as I became clearer on what my rich life looks like

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But it was only recently as I’m getting into your podcast more and I’m getting into the journal you just released, that I realized that it actually is, I will teach you to be rich and that’s very different than becoming rich. Emergency fund: Ideally, you’ll have at least 3-6 months’ worth of fixed-cost expenses saved in an emergency fund. But if you’re really ambitious, go for one year. A solid emergency fund can ease potential hardship. Trade | Right now, Trade is offering our audience a free bag of coffee with any subscription at https://drinktrade.com/ramit. And it’s not, that’s not how it is. In fact, the point of living a rich life is not to save money. It’s not. The point of a rich life, in my opinion, is to design a rich life that excites you and then use your money to live as meaningful of a life as you can. So I’m all for a high savings rate and aggressive investments and earning more. I’m totally for that. But there’s another side of the equation that too many people ignore and that’s what I’ve been very excited about.Ramit Sethi: I think that’s true. I think that a lot of people have been taught well… I think that the world teaches us to save, but nobody teaches us to spend. And if you take that concept of frugality to the logical extreme, then you start to see saving money as a virtue and spending money as a sin. One questions I have is: “How do you change the instrument of your spending (your budget) to match a higher spending goal?” Calculate your FI date and graph your progress to FIRE for free in the Mad Fientist's FI Laboratory! I can’t thank you enough. Like I knew you were the only person for this chat and I’m so glad we were able to make it happen.

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A companion to his excellent personal finance book, I will teach you to be rich, Ramit Sethi has produced a workbook to help get you really clear about what you consider to be a rich life and to take steps to achieve it. Sethi's personality is evident in this book which provides a step-by-step guide to expressing what you want from your time and money in a clear and relatable manner. The guided prompts are really helpful for those of us who have a vague idea of what they want but need help getting it all down on paper. So I do wanna get better at that, but for me, I struggle, I think to sort of distinguish between the two because I couldn’t care less about status, but I do really love that quality. So any insight into that? But there are things that are really important to me, and so I actively seek out how to go deeper and make my life easier. And so I’m not surprised that you had that reaction and that you almost kind of seem to go blank when I asked you how would you do it? But that’s okay. It takes a little bit of coaching.

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So some of the things that I do on the podcast and in my work is simply showing people a different way to think about money, such as that dad who thought money was bad and he should never talk to his daughter about it. Change the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the “Settings & Account” section. What happens at the end of my trial?

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Mad Fientist: It was amazing to hear because, it was more than one episode. And they’re able to give advice to a rich person, but they don’t believe it themselves that they have anything in the bank really. And it seems a little ironic because by the time people are 40, pretty much their number one worry in life is money. So you go, well, why don’t you just read this book or listen to that podcast, YouTube. And there’s a variety of reasons people don’t, but I don’t want to sit here and berate people. Well, that’s not true. I do a little bit. But what I wanna do is help them start to live their rich life. And so I created this journal, and it’s called a no-numbers journal. So you get it and I want you to imagine giving yourself the gift of 15 minutes, your favorite cup of coffee, a quiet room, and you get to sit down and dream.There are aspects of my tightwaddery that I’m planning to keep. One is making use of free and secondhand stuff. Where I live, there is vastly more of it than there’s any market for. I mostly use local free groups to get rid of my excess, but I occasionally obtain things. I borrow and lend, too, which keeps everybody from having to own something they only use once or twice a year, and it lets me get to know some of my neighbors. It’s a myth that shopping used is somehow taking away from people who can’t afford much. At least around here, there is vastly more secondhand stuff than there is any market for. And I just go, are you efficient when you give your husband or your wife or mom or dad a hug? Like do you literally measure how long it’s going to produce the maximum happiness? And they’re just like, no, that would be psycho. I’m like, you’re a psycho by looking at everything through the lens of efficiency. And you will be happy to know that over 2021 and 2022, it looks like we’re doubling that value for our annual spend. So 40 to 60, in my opinion, is the prime spending years. You have money, you have health, and you do have time. Now, if you accept that, listen, you could disagree with me. You could say, I don’t believe that. I think it’s gonna be 65, or, I’m really healthy. Okay, fine. First off, I wanna say it’s not just about you. Workman Publishing is a New York-based publisher of award-winning nonfiction for adults and children.