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Exploring money experiments, chance, and moving too quickly
Logan
November 20, 2025
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Exploring money experiments, chance, and moving too quickly
Happy Thursday! Thanks for reading Intentional Dollar — where we look at old money ideas through a new perspective.
What’s inside?
One idea 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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One idea to experiment with:
Money Experiments:
Nothing New Month: Buy nothing new for 30 days.
You’ll see how many “needs” were boredom dressed up as urgency.
Cash-Only Week: Withdraw a set amount and live on it.
Cash adds the kind of friction your card hides.
The 48-Hour Rule: Screenshot every impulse buy and wait 2 days.
Most wants die in the silence.
Subtract Before You Add: Cut one habit for a week. No Amazon, no eating out, no subscriptions.
Clarity shows up when clutter leaves.
Daily Pay Yourself First: Automate $10 a day to savings for a month.
Make saving an intentional rhythm, not an afterthought.
Calendar Audit: Lay your calendar next to your spending.
If one is chaotic, the other usually is too.
Generosity Day: Pick one day a month to spend on others.
A small dose of generosity pays a big dividend.
Autopilot Month: Automate any manual saving, investing, and bill paying.
Systems outperform willpower every single time.
Challenge a Belief: Take one money belief you swear by.
Live a week as if the opposite were true. You’ll expose the scripts you downloaded early in life.
The 5-Year Test: Before any discretionary spend, ask: “Will this matter in five years?”
Long horizons kill short-term impulses.
Skill Investment Week: Spend only on skill development: books, courses, tools.
Money spent on capability compounds.
make a list of things to try with defined start/stop times
Two quotes on chance:
What’s the balance of skill and luck in the results? Are we learning the right things?
“In the abstract, life is a mixture of chance and choice. Chance can be thought of as the cards you are dealt in life. Choice is how you play them.”
“When luck plays a part in determining the consequences of your actions, you don't want to study success to learn what strategy was used but rather study strategy to see whether it consistently led to success.”
Three questions on moving too quickly:
How often do I create errors, injuries, or extra work because I tried to compress a timeline?
What if I expanded the runway and slowed the climb?
Is the need to move quickly necessary? Why?
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.
Four lines of poetry for the point:
Try some experiments,
Do something new
One might stick
One might change you
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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.
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