5 Day Budget Makeover Series Transcription – Day 1 – Find the Facts

You’re back! I’m so excited that you decided to come back and learn more about how to create a budget that you can really stick to. Now, one of the things that people do wrong when they budget is they look out the window and they see unicorns. Now, what do I mean by that? I mean they’re in a fantasy land. They’re not looking at reality and using the facts of their life and their expenses when they create the budget. What are the chances of you staying on track if your numbers are grabbed out of thin air? So in this lesson, it’s time to find the facts. I’m going to give you a worksheet and let you know what numbers I want you to research. Now to research that, it’s probably as simple as pulling up your banking app and looking through the last month, two, or three, depending on what your billing cycles are for your different expenses, and finding the facts. I’m also going to give you my list of the top most commonly forgotten expenses that throw your budget off. So go look for those, go look for the facts, get them down on paper and we’ll move onto the next lesson tomorrow. If all goes well, this should take you less than 15 minutes. We’ll see you tomorrow! 

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I'm a busy mom of two boys, one fur baby, and a wife to my business partner. After close to two decades as a licensed professional in the personal finance industry, I've helped thousands of busy women overcome the overwhelm and develop sustainable financial habits for MORE money, MORE confidence, and MORE energy for the things and people that matter MORE. I'm a firm believer that life is meant to be lived to the fullest. I don't believe in the traditional 9-5, 40 hour work week. Instead, I've created a lifestyle that allows me to prioritize my family and the experiences we want to have together. I'm not working just to retire. I'm working to live a life that's fulfilling and meaningful, and to share that joy with the people I love. I want to be there for my kid's baseball games. I want to travel the world while my family is young enough and healthy enough to enjoy it. My clients are busy moms that are way too smart to feel dumb about money and make way too much money to feel like they are stuck on the paycheque-to-paycheque hamster wheel. My clients want to live life to the fullest, just like me. My clients want MORE.

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