277 | Gauging the Weight of your Portfolio

<div class= "elementor-element elementor-element-15da9379 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content" data-id="15da9379" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type= "theme-post-content.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <ul> <li>Setting up your financial life includes updating your investor policy statement and examining the rationale for equal weighting inside your index funds.</li> <li><strong>Brad</strong> is giving his physical fitness a boost in December with a month-long burpee challenge. A full-body exercise that can be done quickly at home without any equipment, <strong>Jonathan</strong> asks what would change about your life if you took the challenge of doing 10 burpees every day for the next year?</li> <li><strong>Brad</strong> was inspired to take on the burpee challenge after watching Alan Donegan and his wife, Katie, in a video they posted of themselves doing burpees. They weren't holding anything back and completing each rep with a high degree of difficulty. He wondered what it would look like to give everything your all in life, like Alan and Katie were with their burpees?</li> <li><strong>Jonathan</strong> reflected on how he is often more focused on getting to the end result than he is in the quality of the movement, which he likens to the old saying about losing sight of the forest for the trees. We should focus on systems, processes, and workflow, over results.</li> <li>Get up off the couch and do something that will make your life better in some small way. Cancel a subscription, get rid of convenience, meal plan, do something that makes your life 1% better. And if you start doing burpees as a result of this episode, send in an email to let <strong>Brad</strong> and <strong>Jonathan</strong> know.</li> <li>Although we often talk about and identify the massive actions people can take to make their financial lives better, the community has been very receptive to the idea of aggregation of marginal gains.</li> <li>This year, <strong>Jonathan</strong> has been having conv