Intro: Four Rules for Less Money Stress
  • Four Rules for Less Money Stress
The Most Stressful Question in the World
  • Can I Afford This?
  • You Need a Budget
The Four Rules
  • Four Rules to help you answer the question "Can I afford this?"
  • We're Not Going to Tell You What to Do with Your Money
Forecasting vs Budgeting
  • Forecasting and Budgeting Are Not the Same Thing
  • A Trip Analogy
Rule One: Give Every Dollar a Job
  • Determining Jobs
  • Prioritize
  • Challenge Every Assumption
Rule Two: Embrace Your True Expenses
  • There are Two Types of True Expenses
  • How Dollars Get Older
  • Fewer Emergencies
  • Does This Move Me Closer to My Goals?
Rule Three: Roll with the Punches
  • Your Budget is Based on Your Values
  • Am I Cheating When I Change My Budget?
  • Gut Check: Do You Find Yourself Always Overspending?
  • Rules One and Two Make Rule Three Possible
Rule Four: Age Your Money
  • Older Money Gives You More Security
  • Understanding the Paycheck to Paycheck Cycle
  • How to Break the Paycheck to Paycheck Cycle
  • The Short Term Sprint
  • How Old Should Your Money Be?
Summary
  • It's All Rule One
  • You Already Have a Way of Managing Your Money