Days 19–21 of 90 · UNDERSTAND · Week 3: Give Every Dollar a Job
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Build
Reserve money for your future capacity.
About 18 minutes
Learn
Build is long-horizon money: retirement contributions, investing, education, a business, a home fund.
Build money is different from Protect money because you do not intend to touch it soon. Time is the point.
Small, consistent Build contributions matter far more than large occasional ones.
Do
Set the monthly amount you will direct to Build.
Reflect
What is the long-term thing this money is for?
Day 20
Enjoy
Plan enjoyment on purpose.
Learn
Enjoy is a real category, not a leftover. Planned enjoyment is one of the strongest predictors that a financial plan lasts.
The difference between planned and unplanned enjoyment is not the amount — it is the absence of aftermath.
Deciding the number in advance removes both guilt and drift.
Do
Set the monthly amount you will direct to Enjoy.
Reflect
What do you want to keep spending on, without apology?
Day 21
Your Monthly Allocation
Assign your available income across all five jobs.
Learn
This is the week's deliverable: one page showing where every dollar of a typical month is meant to go.
If your allocation exceeds your income, nothing is wrong with you — the plan simply needs adjusting before the month, not after it.
Expect to revise this. An allocation is a working document, not a contract.
Do
Complete the allocation tool below until your total fits within your monthly income.
Monthly income
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Allocated
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Unassigned
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Share of income assigned
Enter your monthly income on Day 1 to check your allocation against it.
Reflect
Which job did you have to reduce, and how did that feel?
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