Summarise What Your Spending Patterns Actually Say About Your Priorities

Where your money goes is a revealed preference, not a stated one. The gap between what you say matters and where your discretionary spending actually goes tells you something about either your real priorities or the structural barriers to spending in line with your stated ones. This comparison surfaces the alignment, identifies the most important gap, and notes what is already aligned that you might not be acknowledging.

I want to understand what my spending patterns actually reveal about my priorities, not what I say my priorities are.

My spending context:
- My approximate monthly income after tax: {MONTHLY_INCOME}
- My main spending categories and rough amounts: {SPENDING_CATEGORIES}
- What I say my priorities are: {STATED_PRIORITIES}
- What I suspect the gap is: {SUSPECTED_GAP}

Summarise what my spending reveals:
1. What my money is actually going toward: the [three to four] categories where the largest proportions of my spending after essentials go
2. The alignment check: where my spending aligns with my stated priorities and where it conflicts
3. What the conflict suggests: the most charitable interpretation of the gap between what I say matters and where my money goes
4. The one adjustment that would close the most important alignment gap: the single spending change that would best align my money with my stated priorities, stated as a specific monthly amount and category
5. What is already aligned that I might not be giving myself credit for