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 have to manage, saying yes to one thing implicitly means,

saying no to many other options, and that opens up two questions.

First, what matters most to you?

What does society say should?

But what actually matters most in your own life?

And second, how do you align your decisions on a daily, monthly, yearly basis to reflect

that which matters most?

Now answering these two questions is a lifetime practice and that is what this podcast is

here to explore.

My name is Paula Pat.

I am the host of the Afford Anything Podcast.

And today I will be answering questions that come from you, the community.

Here's what we're going to cover.

Alex is saving up for a down payment on a house and she wants to put her savings in an account

that's going to make her some amount of money.

She wants to know what's the difference between a high-yield savings account and a money market

account.

Alex is 25, just graduated and is starting at a job that pays $50,000 a year.

She wants to know how much she would need to save in order to retire with $1 million

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