Money Date No. 6: Seismic shifts on the job front

Big wins this week in politics, business, book news and the job search

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 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?

Money Date for 8/16/24

I procrastinated on this newsletter for as long as possible. It’s been a very procrastination day — do you ever have those? I tend toward delays and distractions when my mind is at its fastest, because settling on any one thing feels like, well, settling when I might be doing something better.

My mind is zipping today, because it’s been a big week: We saw some phenomenal progressive victories in Democratic primaries on Tuesday, we took enormous steps to move our old shop on Wednesday, I chatted with the YDNAB audiobook producer today (aggghhh!) and I’ve found a completely unexpected path forward in my job search.

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