Personal finance is more personal than finance, and we all keep score in our own different ways, but there are definitely winners and losers.
How do you win when piecing together your personal finance puzzle?
You’ll be happy to know that it’s not all about earning a lot and spending a little. In fact, he encourages you to reward yourself by spending lavishly, but intentionally, on things that will bring you happiness.
Before you can even have the opportunity to throw the puzzle box of life away, you need to paint that big picture first. You need to know what you want in life, where you are going, and what that dream will look like.
The “edges and corners” of personal finance involve paying yourself first. Once you paint that very broad picture, you will need to start laying the puzzle pieces down.
Once we have “paid ourselves first,” we get to spend the rest however our heart pleases. In other words, so long as those big picture goals are taken care of, who cares how we spend the rest of our money?