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10 Ways Money Slips Through Your Fingers | Jim Rohn Motivation
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- Sep 26, 2026
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Summary
That's the thing about money slipping through your fingers. It doesn't feel like slipping. It feels like living. It feels normal. It feels like the way everybody does it.You chase a raise. You chase a better job. You chase more income, always more income, believing that more coming in will fix the problem. And then more comes in. And the problem stays exactly the same. Because a bigger river running into a bucket full of holes does not fill the bucket. It just runs faster through the holes.Here is the truth: most people who struggle with money are not struggling because they don't earn enough. They're struggling because of what happens to the money after it arrives. It comes in the front door and walks right out the back, and they never stopped to watch the back door.This seminar walks through ten things you must understand about the holes in your bucket — and how to patch them one at a time.CHAPTERS0:00 Intro — It doesn't feel like slipping, it feels like living1:31 The distance between what comes in and what goes out2:50 The first sign: you can't say where it went4:10 #1 — The small purchases you never decide on6:29 #2 — Interest you pay to other people9:13 #3 — Buying to impress people12:35 #4 — Forgotten subscriptions and recurring charges14:25 #5 — Confusing assets with liabilities17:19 #6 — Money with no plan and no job19:44 #7 — Paying full price out of laziness20:19 #8 — Never learning how money worksWATCHING THE BACK DOORMoney responds to attention. The money you watch tends to stay. The money you don't watch tends to leave. Most people can tell you exactly what comes in and have no idea where it goes — not within hundreds of dollars, not within a thousand. That not-knowing is the real leak, because you cannot manage what you refuse to look at. The spending it…