Kate Campbell

And there's a lot of things in investing that we don't have any control over, like what's happening in the global economy, what the stock market actually does.

We don't have direct control over all of those results.

And so what we can do is stop spending so much time stressing about which company is going up today and what's happening in the global economy and all of that kind of stuff and focus on what we can control in our financial lives.

We can control paying off debt.

We can control building our emergency.

We can control, to some extent,

where we're working and our income and whether we can invest more in our career so we can grow our income over time and we can control where we allocate our portfolio.

So that's what I like to focus on, all the things within my control and not stress too much about the things I can't control.

Yeah, focusing on the inputs.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And when I mentioned my overall financial plan before, when I break it down each year by month, it's only input based.

It's not.

I want to know what the overall portfolio looks like, but I'll do that on percentage terms and not dollar value.

So I'm like, this is what I want the portfolio to look like holistically.

And these are all the inputs I'm putting in.

And over time, if things go to plan, I will get that net worth result eventually.

I mean, this is very anecdotal, but the two funds that I've had automated, like $200 or so going in every month for about four or five years.

I have not had any emotional attachment to the result, whether it's good, whether it's bad, some months it's up, some months it's down.

That money has gone in automatically without me having to think about it for years now.