You can afford anything just not everything.

Every decision 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, anything in your life

that's a scarce or limited resource.

And that leads to two questions.

Number one, what matters most to you?

And number two, how do you align your day-to-day decisions in a way that reflects that?

Answering these two questions is a lifetime practice and that is what this podcast is here

to explore.

My name is Paula Pant.

I'm the host of the Afford Anything Podcast and today, Jeff Chrysler joins us to talk about

how to stop making so many money mistakes.

Jeff is the editor-in-chief of PeopleScience.com, a website that explores the ways in which

we trip ourselves up when it comes to how we handle money.

He's also the co-author of the book Dollars and Sense, along with Dan Airelli.

With his website and his book, Explore How and Why, we often get in our own way, we

often are our own worst enemies, when it comes to how we miss think money and spend

in ways that often don't make sense.

Jeff attended Princeton and used to be a lawyer before switching gears to become an author

and speaker.

We're going to spend the first half of today's conversation talking about the ways in which

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