Being on a tight budget can have its value for a while, like how it teaches you to do a lot of things for yourself because you simply can’t afford to pay someone else to do them for you. So you learn to do your own taxes. You learn to hem your own pants. You make all of your own meals. You clean your own home. When you make good money, you start calculating what your time is worth. If you make, say, $35 an hour and can hire a housecleaner for $20 an hour, you actually save money by hiring a housekeeper and getting your own work done while someone else cleans your place. Or, you may decide to relax then, which is something you can afford to do.
Not one that will improve your career-related skillset or even boost your life skills, like accounting or car repairs. Take a totally silly class that doesn’t really help any practical area of your life. It could be salsa dancing or paper doll making or sculpting. Anytime you’re in the position of being the student—the learner—you feel young again.
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Stop seeing yourself as behind on your goals. See yourself as lucky to have the freedom to pursue them. You live in a country and have a lifestyle that affords you the freedom to pursue your dreams.
If we didn’t believe that we needed certain things to be valuable, attractive, happy and worthy of love, then our economy would collapse. And it’s okay to enjoy some of the material indulgences out there—you are human, after all, and that means you live in a body that gets to taste good food, enjoy nice […]
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