Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills, insight, and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now, while building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

My name is Joshua, I am your host and today I aim to encourage you by

enhancing your appreciation of how rich and peaceful your life is, even on today.

Notice I'm saying today, which is November 6, 2018.

It is an election day in the United States of America and a great many of my fellow

U.S. American citizens are feeling significant angst today over the elections.

Now here's what's unfortunate for you.

There's a good chance that you are going to be disappointed in the wake of today's elections.

I repeat, there is a very, very strong probability that you are going to be disappointed in the wake of today's elections.

Two main reasons why I say that.

Way number one that you'll be disappointed is if your preferred party, candidate, issue, if your

preferred positions or people or platforms lose in today's elections, then of course you will feel that

keen sense of disappointment. And there's a good chance that you will experience

that deep emotional just pain that comes from the loss of an election.

It's very hard if you have invested your emotional energy into certain candidates or positions.

If you've tried hard to lobby your friends and neighbors, you've battled these things out

in the public social media space and you've desperately tried to change people's hearts and minds to agree with you and

then you find that, well, it didn't actually work, that's a strong reason for disappointment.

And there's a good chance that you'll be experiencing that tonight

as the election returns roll in.

Now if, on the other hand, you don't experience disappointment tonight.

If tonight you get to bask in the victory of winning, or the emotions of winning,

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