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 any limited resource you need to manage, like your

time, your focus, your energy, your attention, saying yes to something implicitly means,

turning away all other opportunities, and that opens up two questions.

First, what matters most?

Second, how do you align your decision-making around that which matters most?

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

here to explore and facilitate.

My name is Paula Pat, I'm the host of the Affordable Care Foundation, and I get together to answer

questions that come from you, the community.

What's up, Joe?

I am so happy to be here with you, Paula.

Thanks for giving me the call up from the bullpen to help out.

The bullpen.

Where did that expression come from?

Baseball.

I said that because it's baseball season.

It's called a bullpen?

You do.

That's where all the relief pitchers come in.

They come to help out.

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