What Is a Budget?

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A budget is simply your truest of intentions laid out in some meaningful way so that your money can do the work of realizing those intentions. A budget isn't a strict, stringent, inflexible, external thing that you then blame when life just normal life happens. So it's really about you figuring out what you want most in life right now and saying, okay, this is what I want the most. And then you make sure that your money will help you realize what you want. That is a budget. But at the end of the day, you are dealing with reality.

Clay Finck chats with Jesse Mecham all about budget, whether budgets are for everyone or not, looking at an investor’s overall financial situation when assessing their strategy, and much more!

Jesse is the founder of You Need A Budget or YNAB, and is also a personal finance expert and business leader. He is deeply passionate about teaching individuals, families, and business owners YNAB’s four rules to help them gain total control of their money, which Jesse will be covering for us a little bit later.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:

00:00 - Intro

02:34 - What led Jesse to start his business in 2004 while he was still in college?

06:13 - The story on when Jesse knew it was time to quit his full-time accounting career to go all in on his business.

14:59 - What is, and what is not a budget?

27:34 - YNAB’s four money rules.

43:39 - What Jesse’s personal portfolio looks like.

46:33 - What some of Jesse’s favorite books are.

And much, much more!

*Disclaimer: Slight timestamp discrepancies may occur due to podcast platform differences.

BOOKS AND RESOURCES

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Check out You Need a Budget.
Check out YNAB’s YouTube channel.
Books mentioned in the episode: Traction, High Output Management, The Hard Thing about Hard Things, Your Money or Your Life, The Richest Man in Babylon, Antifragile, & Four Thousand Weeks.
Related Episode: Listen to MI080: To Be A Successful Investor, You Need A Budget w/ Jesse Mecham, or watch the video.

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