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This is optimal finance, episode 617, four ways to take the ego out of money decisions by Mindy

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Four ways to take the ego out of money decisions by MindyCrary with Tiny Buddha.com.

Quote, prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.

Jeffrey Abert.

Nothing has the power to mess up my finances more than my own brain,

or more precisely, my ego.

According to Eckhart Tolle,

the ego entails the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously.

Left unchecked, this constant ego monologue prevents us from focusing on the present moment.

Instead we get caught up in worrying about what happens next,

or in my case, what I want to buy next.

My ego challenges. As a financial planner you would think that I would have mastered

...