Tracking What You Spend
Categories That Actually Make Sense
What you'll learn
- →Replace the 47-category budgeting app with the four-box method: needs, wants, debts, future.
- →Learn the test for which box something belongs in.
- →Understand why simpler categories produce more honest tracking.
Proof task
Don't just watch. Do.
Take the last 10 things you spent money on. Sort each one into one of four boxes: needs, wants, debts, future. Notice how many were wants you originally called needs.
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Chapters
Jump to a moment.
- 0:00The hook
- 1:15The pattern
- 2:45The interrupt
- 4:30Practice scenario
- 5:30The proof task
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Reflect
“Which box has the most entries from this week — and is that the box you want it in?”