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.

Saying yes to something, implicitly means, turning away other opportunities.

And that opens up two questions.

First, what do you value most?

And second, how do you make decisions accordingly?

How do you translate values into actions?

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'm the host of the Affordable Care Foundation podcast, and

today, Dr. Jordan Grummit joins us to discuss the continuum between living in the moment

and planning for the future.

In this interview, we refer to it as the YOLO to deferred gratification continuum, the spectrum,

representing at one extreme end, living entirely in the present moment, and enjoying lots

of fantastic, rich life experiences, adventures, travel, dining, all the joys of the present

moment, at one end of the spectrum, and obsessively planning for the future, being deeply entrenched

in trying to build to a certain financial independence number or trying to build to a certain

retirement, early retirement date, saving and investing 40, 50, 60% of your income, so

that you can hit some net worth goal, that lays at the other end of the spectrum.

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