Welcome to Let it be easy with Susie Moore.

Hello my friends.

This episode sounds a bit dodgy right, Beware the Creep.

Sounds like really inappropriate, but it's not I assure you. It's just something to think about especially you know early in the year as we make

changes as we maybe start to show up in a different way in our life or set different goals or create changes, it's the

creep that happens slowly.

Now, if you're in the finance world or you follow any financial experts, they often talk about income creep.

Right, and what that means is, just say you earn 50K, right? You live on 50K.

And that's your rent, that's your vacation, that's your rent,

your vacations, that's your groceries, etc.

Then you make 60, then 90, then 120 in plus plus plus over the course of your career

if you're lucky. And what most people do is every

time their income goes up, their rent goes up, their entertainment expenses go up.

Things go up to match their new lifestyle. I think that this is very easy to do and

we're often not even conscious we're doing it we have more money and so there's

more money to spend.

My friends, this can be a little dangerous, certainly in the financial sense,

but I also just see this happening generally

with lifestyle sometimes. Let me explain this a little bit more. When I was reading

Robin Sharma's book The Everyday Hero, I came across this passage that I just highlighted and highlighted and

highlighted and I'm paraphrasing here but you'll get the picture. He says that

what for example what a lot of great actors do is they go into acting for the love of it, right?

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