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, any limited resource that you need to manage.

There's an opportunity cost with everything.

And that leads to two questions.

Number one, what do you value the most?

Number two, how do you align your day-to-day decision making 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 Pat.

I'm the host of the Affordable Care Foundation.

And today, Dr. Sarah Stanley Fala joins us to talk about how your personality affects

your finances.

Dr. Fala is the co-author of the next millionaire next door, which she wrote with her father,

the late Dr. Thomas Stanley.

He was one of the two authors of the classic personal finance book, The Millionaire Next

Door, which told the surprising secrets of millionaires in America.

Both books were the product of incredible amounts of research that went into discovering

an incredible amount of data about millionaires in the United States.

What was their early life like?

How much money, if any, did they receive from their parents?

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