Mel Robbins

You are listening to this episode.

You are sharing this episode with family members, with your spouse, with people that you care about because you want to get better.

You now have a roadmap for exactly what to do to start spending less money than you make, saving the difference, and being patient.

That is the advice that has been around since the beginning of time.

It's boring and it works.

You can get good with money.

You can do this.

And you've invested all this time to listen up until this point, so I know you want to.

And I hope you heard the last thing he said.

because he just put into words something that most of us never realize that we're doing, that you turn money into a scoreboard for a good life.

When money becomes a scoreboard, you can never win because there's always someone with more money.

So here's the takeaway.

Your money stress isn't only about what you have.

It is about the gap between what you have and where you are right now and what you think you should have compared to other people.

If you don't define what a happy, content life is for you right now,

Your brain will turn money and chasing money and buying things into something that you will never actually reach because you will keep moving the goalpost.

You will keep feeling behind.

You will keep seeing everyone else and everything that they have as more, better, something that you're missing.

And you'll keep chasing a number instead of starting where you are

doing the three simple things that you've just learned that you need to do, and then following this fourth rule and flipping your mind around money.