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TOOL · PRICE IT · CHAPTER 6

# What is it costing you?

List three problems you've been ignoring. Next to each one, write what it will cost if it keeps going for a year. Use dollars even when it isn't about money. Then pick one word: fix, or walk.

HOW IT WORKS3 STEPS

1. 0:00**Name it.** The problem you've been ignoring, in a few words.
2. 0:01**Price it.** What it costs if it keeps going for one more year.
3. 0:02**Fix or walk.** One word per line. Not later.

[Start my slip](#price-it)

YOUR PRICE SLIP · 1 YEAR

## Three lines. One honest total.

YOUR LINESUP TO 3

STUCK? START WITH ONE OF THESE

COUNT BOTH NUMBERS

- **The price** is what fixing it costs.
- **The cost** is what it takes from you while you wait: hours, sleep, trust, the deal you didn't chase.

WHAT YOU TYPE STAYS ON THIS DEVICE.

PRICE SLIP No. 01471 YEAR

TOTAL CARRIED$0

FIX **0**WALK **0**CARRY **0**

Price it. Then fix it or walk away. Never carry it.

"LATER" IS THE WORD THAT'S BEEN COSTING YOU.

SHOWS ONLY YOUR TOTAL. YOUR PROBLEMS STAY PRIVATE.

PRICE AND COST AREN'T THE SAME THING

## The price is what you pay. The cost is your opportunities.

The four-hundred-dollar repair you keep postponing is priced at four hundred dollars and costing you the car on the day you need it most. The course you didn't take is priced at a weekend and costing you the raise. The hour you won't spend on the hard conversation is priced at an hour and costing you the relationship, slowly, in installments.

When you put a one-year price on each line, count both numbers. Use dollars even when it isn't about money: hours, sleep, trust, the deal you didn't chase.

![Illustration: a man waving off a small repair, then beside the stalled car at night](https://problemspay.com/assets/plate-price-and-cost.webp)

PLATE · CHAPTER 06PRICE AND COST

FIX IT OR WALK AWAY

## Staying isn't the third option. Staying is paying.

Once a problem is priced, there are only two honest answers. You pay to fix it, or you walk away from it. Walking away from a priced problem isn't failure, and it isn't running. Running is leaving a problem unpriced. Walking away is leaving it priced: you can say what it cost, what it would have taken to fix, and what you did to cause it.

Write one word next to each line: fix, or walk. Not "later."

[Read Rule 6: Price it](https://problemspay.com/rules/price-it)

THE LEDGER · WEEKLY

## Switch one line. Every week.

One rule, one reader slip, one move. Join and get the full Introduction and Chapter 1 free, plus the Day One Map.

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