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.

And that opens up two questions.

First, what matters most?

And second, how do you align your daily weekly monthly annual 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.

Today, we are going to talk to guest Oliver Berkman about the stark reality of having only

4,000 weeks to live.

Oliver Berkman wrote a bit of a contrarian productivity book.

Rather than tackle your to-do list through a variety of systems and tactics, we begin not

with what we do but with what we cut.

What do we not do?

That is the core message of today's conversation.

Now Oliver Berkman is a British journalist.

And the author of The Antidote, Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking.

He wrote a long-running column for the Guardian and he has a devoted following for his writing

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