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You're Overspending Because You Lack Values
You're overspending because you lack values
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You're overspending because you lack values
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One morning in January, I woke up and it was like a spell had been broken the way I looked around my room and saw how dull everything was, not because it was lacking but because of how full it was of stuff.
Stuff I didn’t particularly love. Stuff with no serious meaning to it. Stuff I didn’t care about. Stuff that, if... See more
the idea that shopping is a material issue, and overconsumption is a budgeting problem, rather than a spiritual problem.
You're overspending because you lack values
“Stronger values make you spend more mindfully because they shift the axis of desire. When you know what you worship—what you actually stand for and who you want to become—everything gets tested against that vision. Values act like a sieve: they filter out the empty cravings that come from comparison and they let through only the things that
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