this week was a GOOD week.
why pray tell eh? because pots and roundups!
yep, we are chipping away at the GOALS
i’m not only a visual learner but also i activate on data. ..
pots and rounding up are changing the game for me, because “outta sight, outta mind!” if i can only see a certain amount that’s all i have, everything is dead to me until i need it, i’m excited to see what happens on the ui/ux when i hit that amount actually.. but yeah, not only are we properly operating with pots we have them on fucking autopilot automagically, rounding up in my daily transactions.
It’s actually like a personal tax, one that i’m 2x punishing myself when i spend. So here is the rub, i wanna spend less, but if i’m not (self hack here) then i punish that spend with the rounding up amount going toward a relatively short goal — it’s a great hack, outta sight, outta mind as that total starts heading upwards, in less than a week i’m already at 13%
trust me, this is big for me.
why, because i don’t save easily. i’ve always been a weekly/monthly earner, back in the day, in the butchers boy role i’d get paid in cash and a bag of variety of meats that my dad would cook up so i could gorge on that after the working day (it’s like a reward!) — i was never very good at saving for the future.
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Mainly because i didn’t know what the future held so saving and projecting for that was difficult, now however, clarity has returned, i’ve got some great friends and loved ones in my life that just take me for me and we move forward. it’s nice.
i’ve got three pots/goals at the moment — local, remote and treats for my loved ones, you know just little gifts and surprises here and there.
local is obvious, remote is when overseas, plans for both sides of the same coin really but almost duplicated in two locations, chasing 70 degrees and also a level of stability in the process as well — while some things change, some things stay the same — gotta be aware of the ebb and flow of life otherwise it washes over you like the tide on sand removing what was before.
[another day] so when i originally started writing this i was 3/5% up and now i’m at 15% and that was like maybe 4 days back or something, freaking awesome if you ask me, at this rate i’ll have that pot done and dusted in the next month or so keeping on this rate (of course i need to be spending regular to do that thou!)
i’ve reconfigured my “window” of what my world looks like in the next few years. crypto is in the toilet right now in many regards but hey, this is what existential crisis looks like right, celebrations elsewhere while a war is happening elsewhere. the juxtaposition is not wasted on me and it’s just out of view like a bokeh memory.
i’m super thankful for the evolved social media of tiktok, we have moved from just cool to relatability and i’m here for it. while it’s still often navel gazing the amount of information i’ve managed to compound and compress in my head. like re-learn the way to navigate and use money instead of just burn through it — it’s really changing the way i approach earning it.
humble x
(i'm currently up at 16% now btw since i wrote this, a little bit, week by week, just adding bits to the pots and great to have emergency funds access)
