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, anything in your life

that is a scarce or limited resource.

And that opens up two questions.

Number one, what matters most?

That number two, how do you align your daily, weekly, and annual decisions in a way that

reflects that?

Answering those questions is a lifetime practice, and that's what this podcast is here to

explore.

My name is Paula Pant.

I am the host of the Afford Anything Podcast.

We talk often about how investing is not the study of finance.

Investing is the study of behavior.

And every aspect of your investor behavior, from your contributions to your asset allocation,

to whether or not you panic and buy on the dip, all of those elements of your behavior

have a far greater impact on your investment returns than any hypothetical movement of decimal

points on a spreadsheet ever will.

Mastering money is mastering emotion, behavior, habit.

And it is for that reason that I prioritize speaking with people from the behavioral

fields, whether that's behavioral economists or psychologists whose work intersects with

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