What Is Enough?

0:00Hello, my name is Jesse Meakin with another episode of the Jesse Meakin Show and I'm here each week obsessing out a lot about you getting good at money, which means getting good at spending your money because money can only ever be spent so that you will never worry about money again. It is totally possible. You just have to answer the question, what is my money for? And you have to really know the answer. I was interviewed a little bit ago on a podcast. I can't remember the name of the podcast. I apologize if they're listening, but they asked me, what is enough? What is enough money? Oh, it was Choose FI. Yeah, that's what it was. And I didn't have to think long about my answer, but I wanted to talk about

1:02it a little bit here today. And I wanted to see if what you all thought right in it asks Jesse at wineapp.com with your thoughts or questions. And maybe we can elaborate more together on this in a sort of asynchronous way. What is enough? That was what the host asked me on Choose FI. And I quickly answered that enough, though my answer is relative, enough is far less than we think, far, far less. This coming from a guy that has got an office full of books and tech and a house full of books and more tech and, you know, jam equipment and woodworking equipment and a couple cars, you know, on and on and on and on. And I don't even think I don't even feel like I'm a big stuff guy to be totally honest. But boy, when you list it like that for a little condemned, but push comes a shove. Jesse, what is enough?

2:06Enough is far less than we think. I mean, enough at the end of the day when you say enough, when you really take that word, that face value, enough is my kids are fed, clothed, and there's shelter. We are safe, right? We are safe. We are food secure and shelter secure. We are safe. That is enough. That's that is enough. And anything above that is more than enough. This answer I quite like because it put into perspective all of our worries as it relates to everything else that we use our money for. No judgment on any of them, but it just kind of frames it all as like anything else above that is more than enough. And you might say, well, Jesse, I need to earn money to buy the food to, you know, to get the food so that it's enough. Okay, cool. And the way I earn money is I need some transportation. Yes. Yeah, absolutely.

3:11The way you acquire the food, that matters. The way you acquire the shelter, that matters. I get it. But when we're talking about me getting pinned down to like, well, enough is, you know, three bedroom, two bath enough is a quarter acre lot. And then people in Manhattan, where I just was, oh my gosh, I love that city so much. People are like quarter acre. You don't even, you don't need a quarter acre or, you know, a sedan sedan, you just need a little smart car or a truck because of the truck, you don't need to, you know, on and on we go until you are just literally trying to figure out what the answer is of what money is for for every single individual person, which is a fool's errand. Instead, if we just recognize that enough is food security, shelter security, safety, I mean for my kids, right, for myself also. If you just recognize that, then everything above it gets to be called into question. But by you, not by everybody else where we're trying to figure out

4:13in aggregate for everybody, like we're some kind of think tank. Just if you can figure it out for you, knowing that enough is way, way, way down here, way so far, so low compared to what you're used to. And if you're listening to this podcast, I know my audience. So we all are sitting here with more than enough. Doesn't that mean that answering the question of what the money is for is just more meaningful and that there's more opportunity, more possibility, more intention, more room for that intention that you might find because enough is taken care of. Like enough was, I mean, if we're looking at our money as like a week enough was like Monday morning, like you're done Monday morning, you're done. You got it. You got enough. Everything else after that, you got to answer the question of what the money's for. So when people say often like, well, once the money for groceries is like, yeah, okay, groceries and rent, okay, cool, cool. The answer only because or the question becomes truly

5:14interesting when we're at the more than enough stage and we all are. And if we can just acknowledge that how so far above enough we all are, then I think it allows you to maybe envision a little more creativity, a little more flexibility in the program. Not what other people are doing, not what you're seeing on social, although you quit that two weeks ago, just you recognizing what really matters to you at like boiled down, stripped down, peeled away the core. That is some hard introspective work. But if we agree, if we all can agree that we've all hit enough already, then the work has to start. And we don't get to say things like, oh, I can't believe you do this money for this, that or this,

6:17to that. It's like, hey, you also have more than enough. You go do you. I'm going to do me and figure this out. Anyway, let me know if you agree with my definition of enough. I quite like it, but I also quite like getting pushback. Write to me at AskJetCatWineF.com if you want to share your thoughts or ask a question or both. And I'll probably do an episode here in a little bit where we'll answer questions. Until next time, just know that you do have more than enough. And it is incumbent upon you to answer the question of what that extra, what that money is for. I'll talk to you all next week.