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How much does it cost to live a good life?
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How much does it cost to live a good life?
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In my 20s, I thought the answer was simple.
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Just make as much as possible.
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That's how I was going to afford my dream house,
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the Pinterest wardrobe, go to nice restaurants,
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travel around the world, and make my parents proud.
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So, I signed up for the rat race and tried to climb the corporate ladder.
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But during the hustle of it all,
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I started to realize something.
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That ideal life I was chasing was slowly costing me the life I actually loved.
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I'll never forget my work commute on Maui.
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Every morning, I'd drive past the most beautiful golden sand beaches,
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and I kept thinking to myself,
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why am I not out there?
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Instead, I was inside, and I was spending more time with my co-workers than my husband.
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The question became impossible to ignore.
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Pursuing this idea of a good life pulls me away from the things that I love the most.
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What am I really working towards?
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I do think that it comes from a deep-seated belief
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that we think we need to work hard and earn a good life.
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But what if it's already in front of us?
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And what if the only way to have more of what truly matters to us isn't to earn more,
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do more, chase more, but to need less and to actually notice it?
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I think we underestimate the freedom that we can have when we have a low-cost, low-maintenance lifestyle.
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When your needs are simple,
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you don't have to depend on a high paycheck and you just have a lot more options.
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In fact, we were curious to know how little we need to spend in order to live a good life.
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So at the beginning of last year,
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we made it a little challenge to cut back as much as possible.
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Just 30 days of no spending,
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just on the essential stuff.
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And every time I do these financial resets and these low buy challenges,
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I feel like it gives me so much clarity.
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And this time was no exception.
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I feel like I was really able to see all the blessings in my life
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and how I want to be even more intentional with my time,
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energy, and money moving forward.
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So back to the beginning of the video.
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How much does it really cost to live a good life?
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Are you willing to find out?
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I promise you that if you do this challenge with me for 30 days and live as frugally as possible,
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it will give you a lot of clarity about your own life.
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I always want to make things as simple as possible.
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So I think the easiest way is just to go through your monthly bank or credit card statement,
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line by line, and highlight or just write down your essential expenses.
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For me, these are my housing expenses,
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utilities, phone bill, internet, gas,
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things related to my business, and groceries.
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For your lifestyle, it might include daycare,
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minimum payments on a debt,
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gym membership, or a prescription.
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It's anything that is needed to function in your current life.
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And even if you think you know how much your expenses are,
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I feel like our lives are constantly changing
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so it's a really good chance to go over everything to make sure you know what you're paying for.
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And of course, we're not just rushing through this,
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but we're doing this intentionally,
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asking ourselves some mindful questions.
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When you total up all of your expenses,
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do you feel like that's kind of high or do you feel like it's low?
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What surprised you and do you already start to see patterns?
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Although sustaining this number isn't really the goal itself,
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I feel like everyone should know what their baseline is because everything else can build from here.
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Now look at all of your other expenses.
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It's probably things like subscriptions,
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streaming services, apps, eating out,
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coffee shops, self-care, pet services,
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gifts, and other miscellaneous stuff.
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These are often the things that add comfort and joy to our lives.
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But take a closer look and see which ones feel truly worth it.
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You can check yourself.
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When did I last use this service?
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Does this genuinely improve my life?
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Or is it just a convenient thing in the moment?
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If I go without it,
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how much would my life change?
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These are the expenses that I cut out from my life for this month.
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Cut out my coffee, my farm delivery,
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going out for drinks and going out to eat for that month.
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Obviously, I didn't cut it out because it's not important to me.
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But I just wanted to take a step back to see how much value it really adds to my life.
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And we're not just cutting it out to lower our expenses.
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but what we're actually doing is creating space to go from the life we have now to the life that we want.
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So you might be thinking,
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how do we spend our time for this month
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when we're cutting out all of these expenses and all of these things that occupy our time?
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And this really is the opportunity to look inward and see what's already present in our lives,
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things that we might often overlook.
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And instead of defaulting to spending,
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we can ask ourselves, is there a more creative way to do this?
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Just for this month, could you skip the gym and maybe work out at home?
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Could you go for a walking date instead of going out?
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Could you invite your friends over instead of going out to eat?
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I finally read the books that I got for the holidays
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that was just sitting on my bookshelf for months and made a few paintings for the house.
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My husband and I made some snacks and made a date out of watching all of our past trips together.
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It really wasn't about finding free things to do just to fill the time,
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but it was more about feeling my life again.
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I made a list of fun things that you can try for absolutely free for this month.
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I hope that it can give you some inspiration and fall in love with your life again.
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After a month of slowing down and not constantly adding more,
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you will start to feel how your life really is.
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The life that was underneath all of these distractions.
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Because when so much of the external noise is removed,
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what's left becomes visible.
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Quality of your relationships, the state of your health,
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the way that your days are structured,
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how you talk to yourself.
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And if something feels off, you'll notice that too.
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This is the time to ask yourself some honest questions like what have I been putting off?
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Do I like the people in my life?
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Do I feel a connection to the things that I used to love?
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Do I like spending time with myself?
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What really matters to me in this season of life?
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I truly believe when our foundation is solid,
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when we are happy with ourselves,
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when we have a deep connection with the people in our lives,
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we are doing meaningful work.
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We feel connected to the space that we live in,
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the town that we live in.
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Then we're not constantly looking outside of ourselves to fill the empty spaces.
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And when we start bringing things into our lives like traveling
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and apps and going out to eat and spending money on this,
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that, and whatever it is,
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we'll do it because it adds so much joy,
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not because we need it for our joy.
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So, how much does it cost to live a good life?
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I feel like we can't really answer this question until we know what a good life means to us.
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A good life to me is how much love and gratitude I felt at the end of every day.
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That's it.
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I know the cost of living is going up everywhere in the world right now,
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and maybe in many ways this is a perfect time to cut back on our spendings
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but do it in a mindful way.
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So even if you challenge yourself for a week,
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I hope you notice how cutting back makes space for what truly matters.
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I hope you get clear about what you're actually working towards,
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and I hope that you can get clear about what adds to your life versus what just fills it.
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