You can afford anything but not everything.

Every decision that you make is a trade-off against something else.

And that's true not just of your money but also your time, energy, focus, attention,

anything in your life that's a scarce or limited resource.

And so the questions become twofold.

Number one, what are your highest priorities?

Number two, how do you align your day-to-day actions and behaviors to reflect those priorities,

those values?

Answering these two questions is a lifetime practice.

And that's what this podcast is here to explore.

My name is Paula Pant.

I'm the host of the Affordable Care Foundation.

And today I'm going to share with you two speeches that I recently delivered at two different

conferences.

One of these conferences was down in Ecuador a few weeks ago.

It was a week-long financial independence retreat.

And so what I'm going to share today is the speech that I delivered at that retreat

in Ecuador.

And that's actually one of two speeches that I'm going to share with you today.

That particular, the topic of that particular talk is a summary of the many lessons that

I've learned over the past decade about money, work, human psychology, happiness, fulfillment.

It encapsulates a lot of the highlights of things that I've learned through reflection

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