What Is Your Motivational Burrito Currency?
Sometimes people wonder why a guy who makes “six figures” will still bother to fill out a form for a free razor, or sign up for a credit card for the $100+ bonus. Well, for one thing it’s a habit leftover from making $15,000 per year. Back then, adding anywhere from $2,000-$5,000 a year to my annual income from various shenanigans was a huge benefit. It allowed me to enjoy niceties like not eating spaghetti three times a week and booking flights to visit my girlfriend (while still paying down student loans).
In this way, I started to correlate little savings with specific things. $5 meant a plate at the Indian food cart or a loaded burrito. So $100 wasn’t just an amorphous $100 to be deposited into a bank and forgotten, it was 20 meals. I’ll do XX for a month of naan & curry!
By extension, creating additional freelance income of $1,000 to me meant a flight + hotel to a new and strange spot in the world I hadn’t been before. For another person, they might think in terms of Lucky jeans, automotive gear, or ski lift tickets. I know this is a consumeristic form of thinking, but you don’t have to spend all the money you make, nor do you have to save all the money you make.
Do you have a form of motivational currency? Or is cash king?
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