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631: Bigger Isn't Always Better: Remembering to Appreciate What I Already Have by J.D. Roth of Get Rich Slowly

Optimal Finance Daily - Financial Independence and Money Advice

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🗓️ 30 July 2018

⏱️ 6 minutes

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J.D. Roth of Get Rich Slowly reflects on life and appreciation as he walks around a beautiful neighborhood. Episode 631: Bigger Isn't Always Better: Remembering to Appreciate What I Already Have by J.D. Roth of Get Rich Slowly (Minimal). J.D. Roth has been reading and writing about personal finance for a decade. Today he’s financially independent, but ten years ago, his money life was a disaster, with over $35,000 in consumer debt. He started turning everything around in 2004. By being the boss of your own life, you, too, can be the master of your own financial fate. The original post is located here: https://www.getrichslowly.org/bigger-isnt-always-better-remembering-to-appreciate-what-i-already-have Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Episode 631, Bigger isn't always better.

0:37.4

Remembering to appreciate what I already have.

0:40.4

By J.D. Roth of Get Rich Slowly.org

0:43.6

and I'm Dan the guy who is here each weekday reading to you

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from some of the best blogs on personal finance

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and now let's get right to our post

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as we optimize your life.

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Bigger isn't always better.

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Remembering to appreciate what I already have by J.D Roth of Get Rich Slowly.org

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Walking home from work today I decided to take the long way.

1:11.0

Most of the time I choose the easy quarter mile stroll downhill from the

1:14.8

office to our happy half acre or happy 0.62 acre if you'd like to be

1:19.2

precise. But to celebrate the first day of summer, I took the River Forest Loop.

1:24.0

The River Forest Loop is exactly what it sounds like,

1:27.0

a series of quiet streets that went along the east bank of the Williamette River,

1:31.0

easing their way beneath stands of tall oak,

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