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 Sheets, I'm your host, today, I want to share with you what I think will

be the beginning of a fairly lengthy series, or at least I've got lots of these.

Some of my biggest mistakes, meaning financial mistakes, my biggest financial mistakes.

And these are not going to be beautifully coordinated.

They're going to be simply things that as I have reflected on my life, on my successes

and failures, I have observed these things to be significant mistakes.

Today, I'm going to begin with what I consider to be the number one most expensive mistake

that I have made.

It's quite simply this.

I have lived, acted, and thought conservatively.

Constantly I have lived, acted, and thought conservatively.

I've been aware of this particular problem for a while, and I want to articulate a few

of the examples that I can trace in my own life of how this has hurt me in hopes that

you can consider your own life and see what is true or not true, and perhaps you're making

this mistake.

By the way, these mistakes, I'm working very diligently to note them and observe them

so that I can change them.

Some of them I have changed successfully, some of them I am changing, some of them I will

change.

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