Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is about how to motivate yourself to invest
Speaker 1: time in tedious tasks that will save you money. Pay
Speaker 1: yourself a commission, a little fun money can make the
Speaker 1: whole experience more pleasant. Long time listeners may recall that
Speaker 1: several months ago I was dreading organizing and tallying my
Speaker 1: business expenses for my income taxes. Then I realized that
Speaker 1: I didn't actually have to do it. I could pay
Speaker 1: income taxes based on my gross income without deducting anything.
Speaker 1: From that perspective, any expenses I documented would reduce my
Speaker 1: taxable income and thus my tax spill. Now that sounded attractive.
Speaker 1: A few hours of tedious clerical work would save me
Speaker 1: literally thousands of dollars. That was an amazing hourly rate,
Speaker 1: and I was in. By reframing the annoying task as optional,
Speaker 1: but as something that would earn me a lot of money,
Speaker 1: I made the task more attractive. That mindset can help,
Speaker 1: but it's not the only way to motivate yourself to
Speaker 1: do something not fun that will save you money over
Speaker 1: the long term. You can also pay yourself a commission
Speaker 1: from your savings and do something fun with that. I
Speaker 1: am guessing that you, like many of us, may have
Speaker 1: several unappealing money saving tasks on your mind or to
Speaker 1: do list right now. Canceling the streaming service you no
Speaker 1: longer use, getting on a cheaper internet plan now that
Speaker 1: your discounted introductory rate has expired, finding a bet our
Speaker 1: car insurance rate. For most people, tasks like these are
Speaker 1: annoying at best and arduous or stressful at worst. We
Speaker 1: know we probably should do them, but we really don't
Speaker 1: want to. One way to make them more attractive is
Speaker 1: to give yourself a commission from the savings. Perhaps one
Speaker 1: month of what you'll save on an annual expense go
Speaker 1: straight into your pocket to spend however you want. Save
Speaker 1: six dollars per year on your combined insurance fifty is
Speaker 1: just for you. Save fifteen dollars per month on a
Speaker 1: streaming service. Take the first month's savings and buy yourself
Speaker 1: a book. Paying two d less per month on interest
Speaker 1: on your mortgage thanks to your refinancing, Enjoy two massages
Speaker 1: on the house. When you give yourself a commission, you
Speaker 1: harvest most of the savings well, paying yourself a bit
Speaker 1: to make the work feel worth your while. If finding
Speaker 1: savings on recurring expenses sounds promising to you, you could
Speaker 1: even set aside a weekday morning once a year or
Speaker 1: so for blitzing through lots of these money saving tasks.
Speaker 1: Consider reviewing all your recurring household expenses, car insurance, cell phones,
Speaker 1: gym memberships, newspaper subscriptions, and so forth, and identify any
Speaker 1: opportunities for savings. Anything you could cancel, anything you can
Speaker 1: seek better rates on. Claim most of the savings for
Speaker 1: your household budget, but give yourself a commission to make
Speaker 1: the process feel more like a want to do and
Speaker 1: less like a have to do. You'll end up spending
Speaker 1: less each month, while also getting back some free money
Speaker 1: to have fun with. So pay yourself that commission. You
Speaker 1: will still come out ahead in the meantime. This is Laura.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of
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