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Exploring the bookshelf, fresh eyes, and treadmills

Welcome to the Intentional Dollar weekly newsletter — great work taking this small step to move your money forward. I’m Logan, a Certified Financial Planner™, and I’m excited you’re here!

What’s inside?

• One tool to experiment with

• Two quotes from others

• Three questions to dig deeper

• Four lines of poetry for the point

Disclaimer: This is not investment advice. These weekly posts represent my simple thoughts, a few quotes, and some questions — for educational purposes only.

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The Bookshelf

Bookshelves are strategic and aesthetic. Aesthetic when lined with decor and staged with intentional artifacts. Strategic as a visual inventory of consumed knowledge.

There’s a multifaceted use to these stationary wooden catacombs. But today we will look at the strategic implications and cross-functional lessons that these holders of the bones of knowledge convey to us benefactors.

After turning the final page on a long book odyssey, the words and stories live fresh in our minds. This truth diminishes as the new days, books, and distractions form a mess behind us. If we are lucky, time might afford an opportunity to scratch up memories from those old traveled pages.

An article, conversation with a friend, problem at work — all might afford the opportunity to remember a truth unearthed by that book, but likely not.

Often, it’s out of sight, out of mind.

The strategic advantage engineered into a bookshelf is the ability to present the book to you, its viewer. You see the jacket, you see the lessons.

When there’s a constant visual reminder of the things we’ve read and learned, we’re more apt to remember them. Through a constant quick scan of your personal bookshelf, you’re getting practice reps of recalling the journeys you endured. You’re making the lessons stick.

The bookshelf isn’t isolated to books read. It applies to the lessons you’ve learned. What I’m advocating here, is a sort of bookshelf you can build that holds these lessons for review.

While a physical bookshelf is a low friction reminder system — you don’t need to build yours in the physical world.

Pain and misery come in many, many forms. One way to invite those two feelings into your home is to relearn the lessons you’ve already touched hands with. How do you avoid this? You study the notes from the things you learned, and to study, you must see your notes.

Let’s call it your file of gold. You can start this on your phone now.

Create a new folder on a notes app and start documenting the things you’ve learned about money. What you write down first represents the low hanging fruit, the things you’ve learned well. The objective with this is to schedule quick reviews of this “bookshelf” and to update this file of gold as you go.

The gold file, your bookshelf, is only as good as the amount of time you spend with it. Review often.

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Old things seen through fresh eyes become new and clear.

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1. Where am I running high intensity, but not moving forward?

2. How can I get off the treadmill and on the road, to utilize my existing efforts to gain ground?

3. Why do I continue to get back on the treadmill? What’s the root cause? (three why’s)

Which question stuck with you? Questions like these are spotlights for the mind. Reply to this email and let me know which one shined light on a previously dark cave.

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Disclaimer: This is not investment advice. These weekly posts represent my simple thoughts, a few quotes, and some questions — for educational purposes only.