What if doing less was the smarter financial move?
You want to sort every category of your finances out (as you should) and you want to do it immediately. It's good vim to have but sometimes trying to fix everything at once, ends up fixing nothing at all.
When attempting multiple tasks at once, especially when you haven't quite got the hang of any… you're bound to trip up. It's like cooking multiple meals at once when you're not typically the Gordon Ramsey of the house… something's bound to burn. Probably the rice.
When it comes to your money, doing less can actually get you further. Not to be mistaken with being passive but instead, being focused. Rather than trying to optimise every aspect of your financial life at once, pick one or two priorities.
That may look like
- Finally opening an investment account
- Setting up a direct debit to pay down your debt
- Opening a savings pot
- Assessing your budget
- Paying your sibling back (guilty)
When there's less stoves to monitor, you're more focused. When you're focused, you're likely to have a better success rate which can be your driving force for the next task.
Decision fatigue is a silent chain that can slow you down. So, in a world that constantly tells us to “do more”, choosing to do less (intentionally) could be the strategy you need. Who makes the rules anyway?
If you need some motivation on low effort tasks to start with, this might be helpful.
You'll be glad to know you've all successfully bullied me into opening my 1:1 calendar sooner than anticipated. So if you're part of those burning the rice but hoping to channel your inner Gordon Ramsey, the calendar will reopen 1st week of November.
Until then, I'm dotted around for a few events across October so hope to see a few of you in person!
Fis
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