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.

Any scarce resource presents a set of decisions.

And that set of decisions necessitates asking two questions.

First, what matters most?

And second, how do you align your decision making around that which matters most?

Discovering the answers to 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.

And today we're going to talk about one of the biggest bills that all of us over the

span of our lifetimes face.

Now we know the big three expenses, housing, transportation and food, those are for the

average American, the three biggest line items in our budget.

But there's a fourth.

And it's medical bills, medical care.

This is a complex and confusing world.

The average, I don't know whether to use the word consumer or patient.

I'm going to oscillate between the two.

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