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

here to explore and facilitate.

My name is Paula Pant, I am the host of the Afford Anything Podcast.

Normally, we air one episode per week, but once a month on the first Friday of the month,

we air a first Friday bonus episode.

So happy new year.

Welcome to the January 2022, first Friday bonus episode.

By the way, in case you missed it just two days ago, we aired an interview with the guy

who you're about to hear in today's episode, Joe Saw-Seehai, former financial planner,

my buddy, my co-host on half of these episodes.

We flip the tables and put him in the interview we seat, and it turns into an intellectually

robust episode that has the least clickable title in the history of podcasting.

We named it practical investing and the efficient frontier.

No one is going to click on a title like that, so I figured I'd give it a shout out, anyway,

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