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,

any limited resource that you need to manage, saying yes to one thing implicitly means,

saying no to something else.

And that opens up two questions.

First, what matters most to you.

And second, how do you align your day-to-day values to reflect that?

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

to explore.

My name is Paula Pant.

I am the host of the Afford Anything Podcast.

Every other episode I answer questions from the community.

And today, I am answering the following four questions.

Zoe is 23, debt-free, earns $63,000 a year, and saves half of her income.

She wants to attend grad school, but most of her savings is locked up in retirement accounts

funds that she can't access.

What should she do?

Haley purchased a duplex back in March, and although the numbers are good, she had a bad

experience with a tenant that makes her no longer excited to own the building.

What's her next step?

Sam has money saved in a Vanguard S&P 500 index fund.

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