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Category: Self-Improvement, Psychology and Mindset

January 1, 2021By Erin @ Team Afford Anything

#293: The One Question That Makes Everything Easier, with Geoff Woods

Are you ready to say goodbye to bad habits from 2020 and say hello to habits that will actually guide you toward the person you want to become?

If so, a simple framework for building better habits is only a few minutes away.

After listening to this episode, you’ll have a step-by-step approach for creating habits that will serve you for years to come. This approach brings clarity around the one thing you need to focus on to live the life you’re dreaming of. 

Our guest is Geoff Woods, Vice President of The ONE Thing and host of The ONE Thing podcast. (You might be familiar with the book by the same name.) He is an expert at ruthlessly prioritizing tasks, developing values-based habits, and getting clear on the one thing that needs to be done to achieve a vision.

The simple framework that he presents in today’s interview gives you the tools you need to focus deeply and commit to actions that will take your productivity and personal development to the next level this year.

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December 31, 2020By Erin @ Team Afford Anything

PSA Thursday: Kickoff 2021 with a 31-Day Challenge

Happy 2021Welcome back to PSA Thursday, a weekly-ish segment in which we talk about how to handle money, work, and life in the year that is 2020.

Today, we’re looking toward the future with a focus on kicking off 2021 with fresh energy and inspiration.

This episode contains a sneak peek of our 31-day challenge, and if you sign up here, you’ll receive a daily email that contains:

  • One key lesson or takeaway from a book that we love in the areas of psychology, finance, entrepreneurship, or productivity
  • One question, related to how you can apply that lesson to your own life
  • One challenge or action that you can take that will directly relate to that lesson

We also have an exclusive group in our community platform where you can join other members and take part in the challenge together.

This challenge is a powerful way to start 2021 with support, encouragement, guidance, and fresh momentum.

Happy New Year!

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December 22, 2020By Erin @ Team Afford Anything

#291: How to Command Respect at Work, with Tracy Tutor

Are you confident in your ability to lead a virtual conversation, or do you get so nervous that you forget everything you planned to say as soon as you open your mouth?

Do you know how to keep people engaged during meetings, or do you notice people looking elsewhere for a distraction?

Are you able to listen to your gut and speak your truth when things go awry, or do you silence your inner voice and doubt your feelings?

Tracy Tutor, author of Fear is Just a Four Letter Word and the first female real estate broker on Million Dollar Listing LA, joins us to tackle all of these questions. In this interview, Tracy shares how she learned to listen to her gut after experiencing trauma at the hands of larger-than-life egos, tips for engaging clients and managing group dynamics both virtually and in-person, and why humor can connect us all.

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November 9, 2020By Erin @ Team Afford Anything

#284: The Psychology of Money, with Morgan Housel

Do you wrestle with the idea of leaving your savings in an account earning next to nothing versus investing it in the stock market?

Do you use investment strategies that allow you to work with your nature, rather than against it?

Are you careful to seek investment advice from those who share your investment goals, or do you get caught up in the trends of day traders?

Morgan Housel, author of The Psychology of Money, joins us to discuss why investing is not the study of finance, but the study of how people behave with money. Morgan is an award-winning financial journalist, former columnist for the Wall Street Journal and The Motley Fool, and one of the foremost thinkers in the world of investing.

As a long-term investor who shares our buy-and-hold philosophy, Morgan has behavioral finance insights that can help us invest for financial independence with more clarity and a better understanding of ourselves.

We discuss how to develop self-awareness around biases, the importance of flexibility for long-term strategies, saving like a pessimist and investing like an optimist, becoming durable in the face of market adversity, the key difference between patience and stubbornness (and how it affects your mindset), expectation management, the importance of bonds and emergency funds, and a difficult lesson about tail risks that Morgan learned at age 17.

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October 14, 2020By Erin @ Team Afford Anything

#281: The Art of Decision-Making, with Annie Duke

How many times have you made a decision – big or small – only to regret it later?

            “I wanted to fund my IRA this year, but that vacation was calling my name…I should have known better. Now I feel behind.”

            “I really wanted to take that out-of-state job, but I talked myself out of leaving my family and friends behind. Now I’m unhappy thinking about what could have been. How stupid of me.”

            “Ugh, I knew I shouldn’t have eaten all this ice cream, but it was too good to put away. What was I thinking?”

But…how could you have known?

We can’t make decisions with 100 percent certainty. Therefore, we can’t know how something will turn out.

Yet most of us get stuck in analysis paralysis, desperate to gather as much information as we possibly can before making a decision.

And when that decision doesn’t turn out as we hoped, our response is, “I should have known!”

How can we break this cycle? How can we accept that we don’t have total control over the outcomes of our decisions? How can we forgive ourselves, and others, for not getting it right?

Most of all: how can we improve our decision making skills to avoid this scenario in the first place?

That’s what today’s guest, Annie Duke, best-selling author of Thinking In Bets, is here to tell us.

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October 2, 2020By Erin @ Team Afford Anything

#279: How to Avoid Financial and Life Disasters, with Dr. Gleb Tsipursky

What process do you use to make decisions?

“Uhh … I put together a pros and cons list!”

“I harness my awesome spreadsheet skills and work out the variables in cells.”

“I ask others for their opinions and seek information from people who have been in my shoes.”

All of these tactics are common decision-making techniques…but they’re not processes.

What happens when you get stuck on a critical decision that you need to make quickly?

Does the intensity of the situation get the best of you? Do you make the decision based on your gut reaction? Or do you work calmly through a list of techniques that will help you arrive at a well-informed decision?

If you rely on your instincts in the heat of the moment, that’s natural. But it won’t lead to the best outcome, and it lacks process.

Today’s guest is here to share two decision making processes that can help you cut through the noise and arrive at a well-thought out decision. If you love practical guests with information that you can apply right away, you’ll love this episode.

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September 15, 2020By Paula Pant

#276: Cut the Fluff and Become a Digital Minimalist, with Dr. Cal Newport

Have you found yourself mindlessly scrolling through social media feeds over the last few months? Have you also found yourself in a state of sadness, anxiety, or aggravation afterwards?

We live in an increasingly noisy world. A world in which many of us use social media, or the internet in general, to escape. But our escapes often leave us feeling empty and annoyed at ourselves for wasting several hours of precious time.

Here’s one possible remedy for this tiring, relentless cycle: embrace the philosophy of digital minimalism.

            Okay, I’m in. But…what’s digital minimalism? 

Digital minimalism is a term coined by Dr. Cal Newport, today’s guest.

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September 4, 2020By Paula Pant

#274: Finding Hope and Happiness in a Confusing World, with Mark Manson

It’s September! If you’ve listened to any episode in the last month, then you know that I’m on round two of what I’ve dubbed my September Sabbatical, otherwise known as my yearly time to take a break from podcast production.

We’re not leaving you hanging, though. Instead, we’re digging through the archives and airing some of my favorite interviews on the show. Enjoy!

What does it take to create a sustainable sense of hope?

That’s the question that I invited Mark Manson, megabestselling author of Everything is F*cked and The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, to answer on this episode.

While we published this episode one year ago, the question of how to create hope remains as pressing as ever.

Mark says that three basic factors contribute to a sense of hope:

  1. Autonomy
  2. Purpose
  3. Community

Mark and I keep these three factors in mind as we discuss how to define success, find new challenges, and choose what’s meaningful in life. We touch on the importance of emotional regulation and avoiding crises of hope. And we talk about how they relate back to the financial independence retire early (FIRE) movement.

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August 7, 2020By Erin @ Team Afford Anything

#269: How to Ask Better Questions, with Charles Duhigg

Are you scared to take the first step toward the habits that you want to build?

Do you believe in your ability to change?

Or are you completely lost as to where to start?

Charles Duhigg, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the best-selling books The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better joins us on today’s show to tackle these questions.

On his podcast, How To!, Charles explores the “why” behind our habits and helps listeners overcome life’s biggest challenges. Among them, finding a new career before it’s too late, walking away from an impossible parent, fighting racism in your town, and saying the right thing at the worst time.

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July 14, 2020By Erin @ Team Afford Anything

#265: Personality Isn’t Permanent, with Dr. Benjamin Hardy

Who will you become in five years? 

Will you be the same person you are today, living a similar lifestyle? 

Or will you be a radically different person, with contrasting beliefs, goals, and preferences? 

According to research, most of us believe that we’ll maintain the same beliefs, goals, preferences, and behavior as our past selves. We believe that we’ll continue to plod along the trajectory our past selves set, destined for the same end-goal. 

That belief is flawed, and in some cases, downright wrong. 

Our personality is constantly evolving. The person we are today is not the same person we’ll be in five years. 

            What? That’s silly. I’m me either way, aren’t I?

Think about it this way: are you the same person you were five years ago? Ten years ago? Fifteen years ago?

Of course not. Things in your life have changed: your interests, hobbies, decision-making process, and habits are different than they were a decade ago. 

Past you ≠ present you. Present you ≠ future you.

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