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 your time, your focus, your energy, your attention to any limited resource

that you need to manage, saying yes to something implicitly means, turning away other opportunities.

And that opens up two questions. First, what matters most? And second, how do you align

your decision-making around? That which matters most?

Answering these two questions is a lifetime practice and that's what this podcast is

here to explore and facilitate. My name is Paula Pat. I am the host of the

Afford Anything Podcast. Every other episode we answer questions that come from you, the

community. And my buddy, former financial planner, Joe Saul Seahye, joins me to answer these

questions. What's up, Joe?

Hi, I'm sitting here watching you get ready to answer questions and eat a grapefruit.

Yes. I had exactly what I said right before you started recording. I was like, I need

to grab a glass of water and a grapefruit and then I'm ready to go.

Because nothing says I'm ready to podcast like grabbing a grapefruit.

Healthy body, healthy mind. Absolutely. Yes. But I got to tell you, if you're

chewing on a grapefruit while I'm answering a question, it's going to be a little distracting.

So I'll be sure that you directly into the microphone.

I did have this. Can I tell you this little story when I was on Channel 7 in Detroit,

is there money man? I had one anchor. She was a backup anchor. And she would always, when

she knew that the camera shot was on me and me alone, she would pick her teeth, Paula.

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