You can afford anything, you just can't afford everything.

Every decision that you make is a trade-off against something else, and that doesn't

just apply to your money, that applies to your time, your focus, your energy, your attention,

it applies to anything in your life that's a limited resource that you have to manage.

And that opens up two questions.

Question number one.

What matters most to you?

Not what the society say should matter most, but what actually is a priority in your life.

And question number two is how do you make daily decisions that reflect that?

Now answering these two questions is a lifetime practice, and that is what this podcast is

here to explore.

My name is Paula Patte, I'm the host of the Afford Anything Podcast.

We are normally a weekly show that airs every Monday morning, but once a month on the

first Friday of the month, we air a first Friday bonus episode.

So welcome to the January 2020 first Friday bonus episode.

Here's what we're doing today.

If you've been listening to this podcast for a long time, you know that at the beginning

of 2019, we put out a challenge called One Tweak a Week.

One tweak a week is a series of 26 actionable steps that you could take that would improve

your financial health and financial security.

It was designed to be small steps, tiny tweaks.

Each one should take less than an hour, some of them take less than five minutes, and each

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