A few weeks back, I issued on this podcast encouragement.

You might even call it a challenge to do the most important thing you can do this year with your money.

And know that has nothing to do with Roth conversions or investing or the way that you're pulling money out in retirement.

It had everything to do with how you're spending money.

And today's a follow-up episode to that because in that episode, I asked you this question.

I asked the simple question of what's one thing you've always wanted to do or buy, but for

whatever reason haven't gotten around to doing it.

And by the end of that episode, here was the challenge.

I asked you to write that thing down, whatever it was, on a scrap of paper by the time that

the episode was over.

I then asked you to write down

a date by which you would make that purchase or do that thing, as well as write down where exactly

funds would come from, whether it's bonus, stock sale, cash flow, whatever the case might be. And by

the end of that, I asked you to share with me. I said, please email me your responses to this question,

and I got some really incredible responses. This is another episode of Ready for Retirement. I'm your host,

James Cannell, and I'm here to teach you how to get the most of the life with your money. And now,

on to the episode. So what I want to do in this video is actually share some of the responses

you all shared, because the most important thing we can do in this video is actually share some of the responses you all shared,

because the most important thing we can do with our money is align it in the way it's actually

being spent. As I mentioned before, it does not matter how impactful your tax strategy is.

It doesn't matter how much your portfolio grows. It doesn't matter if you've optimized Social

Security. If you can't actually get to a position where you're

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