{"id":2957,"date":"2020-06-10T04:45:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T09:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ellevatedoutcomes.com\/?p=2957"},"modified":"2026-06-16T13:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:01:10","slug":"how-i-manage-money-at-home-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zudigitest.com\/ellevatedoutcomes\/how-i-manage-money-at-home-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Manage Money: at Home, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hey there, how is your day? Your week? Your month? It’s heavy out there, and very rightly so. Whoever you are and wherever you are: you’re allowed to feel what you’re feeling, especially if it’s discomfort. I hope that you’re out there, having difficult conversations – with yourself and others. Asking questions. Listening. Feeling some anger. Some fear. But also, perhaps, a tiny glimpse of hope?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While on the surface it may feel abrupt to continue on with How I Manage Money<\/a>, I’d like to share the perspective that, in fact, it couldn’t be more on point. For as we said last week in the (Im)balance of Power<\/a>: “Money is <\/em>power.” So, how we spend our money speaks money for what we value and how we disperse our power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we chatted two weeks ago, your assignment was to organize and analyze the past six months of your finances, to understand (not judge): “How do <\/em>I spend my money?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you used ModMoney’s template, this nicely categorizes your expenses into three buckets and tells you what percentage you spend on each:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Living Expenses<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Discretionary Expenses<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Savings<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Once that is done, we can move to step…

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    2. Reflect: “What do I value, and what are my values<\/a>? How do my spending choices reflect these (or not)?”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    I’ll share our personal example. I’m not sure why this is, but ever since I was an adolescent, I’ve valued three things: <\/p>\n\n\n\n