The Three-Bucket Strategy For Building An Emergency Cash Fund In Record Time

Do you actually know where your money goes each month? 

Spending $3 for Starbucks coffee a day doesn’t sound that much, does it? Convert that into a year and it’s worth $1,080 of your budget. 

Now you’re probably wondering where you could’ve spent all that money instead. 

Sometimes people know better but they still repeat the same dumb mistakes. 

If you don’t know where your $1,000 goes in a month or where your $50,000 goes in a year, then you have to find it because that is money lost to you, to your dreams, and to your goals. 

And you can only build a life of your dreams if you have an action plan to get you from where you are to where you want to be.

You need to figure out where all your money actually goes month over month so you have the power to ultimately make your money work for you.

It’s never too late to get started.  

In this episode, you will hear:

  • The generosity bucket, the short-term bucket, and the long-term bucket
  • How to get creative with your cash emergency fund
  • How to position the three-bucket approach for power and options
  • A closer look into my cash breakdown

 

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