Financial Independence Through Investing, Minimalism & Mindfulness
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When you really want something, and you have the means to get it, what do you do? How do you measure your desire to gauge if this isn’t a decision you’ll regret later? Learning about delayed gratification can help build a muscle that serves many uses.
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Here’s an interesting activity that could help shed some light on where your funds are going. In order to do it though, you’ll need a budget from the last year to really dig into how much you’re spending in different areas of your life. When starting this exercise, I didn’t have all of these numbers, which was concerning considering how general these numbers are. Creating a budget and comparing that against my spending distribution helped highlight the weight of my spending decisions.
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Blame comes in many forms, and they all suck. There’s blame when you did something wrong, or when the result wasn’t what was expected. Blame when you leave someone out, or when you forget something. Blame when you let someone down, or don’t see around a corner to help someone when they were expecting it.
For me, likability is a key aspect of my personality. I put entirely too much weight on being liked by people. This means that when someone doesn’t like me for some reason, it hits me hard.
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Have you ever had something weighing on your mind and just wanted it to go away? Maybe you were trying to go to sleep, and you couldn’t stop thinking about something that happened at work. Or maybe someone offended you and you just can’t let it go. For me, the opposite often happens — if I offend or let someone down, it’ll stick with me in a hard way. Using this mindfulness exercise is one approach to improving your state of mind.
For some of these, a conversation with another party will be the way to help put the matter to rest, but if that’s not immediately possible, how do you let it go until then? Here’s an exercise you can try to help let go of what’s on your mind.
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Every decision you make costs you energy and willpower. Decisions, like possessions, can be focused and limited to that which gives us the most pleasure.
Think about Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg. Both famously reduced their wardrobe to only a few options, giving them more energy to focus on changing the world in their own ways.
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In college, and shortly thereafter, I wasn’t the best with money. I spent entirely too much needlessly upgrading my computer to the latest hardware for no real reason. Like many who come into some funds with a first job after college, I wasn’t the most thoughtful about where I spent my money. It didn’t take too long for that to change though. It wasn’t long before I realized I had accumulated more than I wanted and needed to declutter.
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