Ep 62: Dealing with the Guilt and Fear of Spending TOO MUCH!

But this week, we are turning our attention towards a topic which kind of emerged from an episode we did a couple of weeks ago.

I was discussing buying a mattress and how I was getting a little bit stuck in a familiar pattern and cycle whenever I'm having to research something and spend time some money on an item and there are a lot of options and it seems to be a case of not wanting to move past a particular number that I might have anchored myself to and We were talking about the fact that an episode or maybe two on budgeting might be quite a useful topic to bring together sort of the money path and life path aspects of budgeting.

And we're going to maybe dive into that this week.

So do you want to kick us off with what we might be looking at and what the viewers might take away from the end of this particular show?

Well, we've talked in the past in probably a couple of episodes about your tendency to want to over-research, over-analyze, and almost spend so much time trying to get the best deal that if you cost it in the time, it ends up being a crappy deal.

So we're not going to be talking about that so much.

I think what got us interested is...

Two things, and that's what we'll be covering.

One is there's an orthodoxy that budgeting is good.

So we'll look at that story and maybe we'll ask, and people can think for themselves, well, what sort of budgeting is good or how does budgeting serve my life? And for some people listening, it might be that actually you need to overcome a resistance or a fear of budgeting or a dislike of budgeting.

And that might serve your life.

And for others, you need to let go a bit and loosen up.

So the question is always in this podcast is not what sorts out my money, but what serves life.

So I think we're going to be starting with your story and sharing some of our own examples.

Ask what would life-centered budgeting mean and how might that be different from normal budgeting? And then very much linked to that, what might we individually, depending on our personal psychology and our habits, what might we need to either let go of or overcome in order to have healthy, creative, life-centered budgeting? And what that might look like might actually look and feel perhaps quite different from what you're imagining as you listen in this first few minutes of the podcast.

So we'll get into all of that.

And hopefully this will be relevant, as I say, for people who hate budgeting, never budget or are super, super focused on budgeting.

And the way in is usually through a story.

So Shabba, tell us about your mattress.

Have you bought one yet? I have, I have.