You can afford anything but not everything. Every choice that you make is a trade-off

against something else and that doesn't just apply to your money, that applies to any

limited resource you need to manage like your time, your focus, your energy, your attention.

And that opens up two questions. First, what matters most and second, how do you make decisions

accordingly? Answering those two questions is what this podcast is all about. My name is

Paula Paye. I'm the host of the Afford Anything podcast. And today's episode is special for

a variety of reasons. First of all, every year, if you're a long-time listener of Afford

Anything, as you know, we've been doing this for, I think this is our third or fourth year

in a row. During the month of September, our team takes the September sabbatical. I'm

going to talk about that in just a second. But this is the first kickoff episode of the

September sabbatical for September 2022. It's also special because we are typically

a weekly show. We air new episodes every Wednesday. But once a month on the first Friday of

the month, we air a first Friday bonus episode. So not only is this our first September 2022

September sabbatical episode, but it's also the first Friday bonus episode for September.

So what does all of that mean? And what does it mean for this upcoming episode? Let's

answer the latter question first. In this upcoming episode, you're going to hear three

talks. All three of these talks came from the Icono Me Conference. The economy conference

has its roots in the fire movement, the financial independence or tire early movement. It's

a three day gathering of speakers and attendees who are interested in really diving into

fire. I spoke at the most recent conference last year, and you're going to hear that

speech in this upcoming episode. You'll also hear speeches from Rich Jones and Carl

Jensen delivered from the stage at the same conference. And we're all talking about

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