76. Your Mid-Year Points Check-In: How to Evaluate and Recalibrate Your Strategy

Point Me To First Class

Devon Gimbel MD

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5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Doing a points check-in is the best possible way to recalibrate and course correct while there's still plenty of time left in the year. This means getting clear on every aspect of your points world, including your current points balances, credit card welcome bonuses, loyalty program status, and estimating your upcoming spend.

Whether you're brand new to points and miles or a seasoned pro, tune in this week for a comprehensive strategy for evaluating your progress and making the most of your remaining spend for the year. Even if you don't have a points plan in place yet, the strategy I share today will help you get ready for taking a more intentional approach to reaching your points goals in the future!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Point Me to First Class, the only show for employed professionals,
0:06.1	entrepreneurs, and business owners who are looking to optimize their higher than average
0:09.5	expenses to travel the world.
0:11.5	I'm your host, Stephen G Gimble and I believe that your
0:13.4	expenses are your greatest untapped asset if you know how to leverage them.
0:17.8	Ready to dive into the world of credit card points and miles so you can travel more,
0:21.6	travel better, and travel often. Let's get started. points and
0:25.0	you can travel more, travel better and travel often.
0:34.8	Hello everybody and welcome back to another episode of the Point Me to First Class podcast. I hope you're having a great Monday if you're listening to this
0:39.1	episode on the day that it airs or a great other day of the week if you're listening any other time.
0:44.6	How are you all doing and what's going on in your points life right now?
0:49.8	What's going on in my points life is that I am preparing to go and sit down and do a little bit of a
0:56.4	points check-in with myself. This is something that I usually do twice a year, once in
1:01.9	January and then again in August or early September.
1:05.8	And I wanted to share that process with you all so that you can take, steal, or use whatever
1:10.7	portion of it you find helpful. In this episode we are going to
1:14.3	cover what a points check-in is, what you can get out of doing them and how to do one
1:20.0	so that you can get the most out of it. Whether you're brand new to points or a seasoned points traveler,
1:26.0	this exercise is one that anyone can benefit from.
1:30.0	But one thing that I want to be sure to note is that while I personally love things like checklists
1:36.1	planning and organization, you might not. You can be incredibly successful at points without
1:41.6	doing anything that I say.
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