Kate Campbell

And I'm not emotionally attached to it.

And so that's made it easier to stay invested for a long period of time.

Whereas some of the other accounts where I might more manually transfer the money across and then each month I'm like, okay, what am I buying?

I mean, it's a bit different now.

I've kind of changed my

Approach to that, when I was making those individual investment decisions each month and what day and what to invest in, there's a lot more emotions attached to that.

So I have seen, even in my life, the difference that automation has made in being able to stick it out and invest for a long period of time.

Number seven is, I guess in the name, but your personal finances are personal.

And we talk about a lot of different things on the podcast, on the Investors Podcast, when you're reading The Barefoot Investor or any other books.

There's so many different things mentioned and some things will work for you and some things you might try and they...

kind of work, but not quite.

And some things just might not work at all.

And that's the thing.

Not everything's going to work.

And so you might want to do something that's quite different to other people.

So we might chuck out the number when we're talking about emergency funds.

And we might say three to six months of living expenses in a high interest savings account.

Yep.

And then you get to six months of living expenses and you're like, I don't think that's enough.

I've got an insecure working environment.