You can afford anything, you just can't afford 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.

It applies to any scarce or limited resource that you need to manage.

Everything yes to something implicitly means, saying no to other opportunities even if

you are unconscious about those costs.

This opens up to questions first, what matters most to you and second, how do you align

your decision making to reflect that which matters most?

Answering these two questions is a lifetime practice and that is what this podcast is here

to explore and facilitate.

My name is Paula Pant, I am the host of the Afford Anything Podcast, we are normally a

weekly show but once a month on the first Friday of the month we air a first Friday bonus

episode so welcome to the May 2021 first Friday bonus episode.

And do you ever grapple with the differences between your present self and your ideal best

version of yourself?

So for example, the best version of yourself might be the type of person who saves 50%

of their income or exercises four times a week or spends their weekends learning about

how to analyze a stock or learning the nuances of cryptocurrency.

Maybe that and I'm not saying that's what your ideal self needs to be but however you define

your ideal best version of yourself, you know who that person is but your present self,

not so much.

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