One reader wrote in to tell me that they’ve decided to take the Personal Spending Audit challenge with a group of friends. They all downloaded the template (available here) and have committed to track their spending together through to the end of the month. Apparently, they’ve already made a few insights by just sharing their surprise findings with each other over a Saturday morning coffee, so that’s awesome. If your friends need any push to get started, maybe forward my PSA setup email and then send them this MB survey link where they can tell me a bit about their PSA setup process and enter to win one of ten ?200 Grab Food vouchers. If you're not even doing the PSA I still want to hear from you, and you and your feedback still allows you to enter the draw!
MB BOTTOM-LINE: My goal with the survey is to learn what works and what doesn’t so that I can improve this process for when I run it again in H2 or at the start of next year. It will also help me fine-tune what I focus on going forward, so I don’t end up wasting time droning on about topics that maybe only I really care about (like my weird “forced savings” tactic). At the end of the month, I want to do another survey to hear about what insights you were able to make by seeing your spending in all its vulgar detail, and share those insights with the rest of the readership. The more people who take part, the more feedback I get, and the more shared learning we can do. This could be very interesting, but you really need to do the work (the PSA) to get the benefit. That’s the main reason for the incentive. I don’t have any sponsors for this, it’s just straight out of my pocket because I think this is so important. Join me! Once you start your tracker, please take this survey to enter the draw!
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