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.

This applies to every limited resource that you need to manage, saying yes to something

implicitly means that you're accepting the trade-offs.

And that opens up two questions.

First, what matters most?

Not what does society say ought to matter most, but what is a genuine priority in your

life, even if it's weird?

That's the first question and the second question is, how do you then align your decision-making

to reflect your priorities?

Because oftentimes it's easy to say that we value x, y, or z, but actually make choices

that don't line up with our purported values.

So how do we do that?

Answering those two questions is a lifetime practice.

And that's what this podcast is here to explore.

My name is Paula Pant.

I'm the host of the Afford Anything Podcast.

And as we all know, our fears, our anxieties, our cognitive biases, these can mess up

our decision-making.

And when it comes to how we manage our investment portfolios, our unregulated emotions, or our

unchecked cognitive biases, can lead to some really darn expensive mistakes.

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