It was my senior year in college and I was on a roll. I had unlimited energy and continued to take on responsibilities. I was working, volunteering, studying, and going to class. But I couldn’t do it all. At least not well.
And I didn’t.
That was transformative for me. To quote Thich Nhat Hanh, “Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.”
Not enough attention is paid to stopping. In our financial lives, we often churn mindlessly forward. Let’s take a moment to look at what we can stop.
How many streaming services and subscriptions do you have? Are you using each of them?
Go through your Apple Store and Amazon Prime account to see what you are paying for that you rarely use. This may not put you on a path to financial independence, but it will give you practice in discerning what you want and stopping what you don’t.
Are you repeatedly being bombarded by stores where you made a one-time purchase?
Before you delete those emails, set up a rule so they head into your junk folder. Yes, some of those emails miraculously avoid junk, but for those that don’t, it will stop impulse spending and time wasting.
