Money Date No. 3: Building the plane while flying
Business moves, online shopping and apprehension about credit card debt
Inspired by a Healthy Rich contributor, one money exercise I encourage in You Don’t Need a Budget is a periodic money date — a little check in with yourself, your partner(s), or your family to process your financial situation and consider any big or small changes you want to make. As an experiment, I’m adding my weekly money date reflections to this newsletter so you can see how this exercise looks in real life. Subscribers can follow along in a private space after the paywall, and I encourage you to steal my questions to guide your own reflections!
What’s the most joyful thing you did with money this week?
Is there anything you did with money this week that you’d like to change or avoid in the future? Why?
What did you do (financially or otherwise) to support your goals this week?
Based on your experience this week, are there any changes you want to make to your commitments or goals?
My money date for 7/5/24
It was a holiday week for Independence Day in the U.S., and I ostensibly took time off work this week. For me, that typically means taking time to do only the work I want to do and doing it in exactly the way I want to do it. I’ve never been great at stepping away from work fully. Amid a business and work transition, I’m in a particularly high-strung moment where I’ve lost all ability to balance work and not-work. (More below on how I’m digging my way out of this abyss!)
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