Mel Robbins

The 85% rule?

Get 85% of this right.

You're good.

And I also love this because, like, it can feel so insurmountable when you've made major financial mistakes in your life.

Yeah.

That this gives you a place to start that you can then start to get better from.

And I just actually had a huge wake-up moment.

The fact that I can't answer those numbers like that at this stage in my life...

For me, it used to be because of fear and shame and how bad the numbers were.

I used to be one of those people that the bills would arrive and I would just not open them.

And because it was confronting to see the debt and confronting to see how much I had spent because I was, you know, basically shopping to escape my life with money that I didn't have.

And then you'd open up the bills and be like, I don't have that money.

And so I it used to be that.

But I think now that I've paid off all the debt and I have savings and I've, you know, maniacally saving.

I don't look at it at all still.

This is so important.

If you just heard Ramit say...

I'm bad with money.

I want you to pay attention loud and clear because he's absolutely right.

Or if you say something like, I don't understand, it's overwhelming.