Simple Finances 101: If You Want "Sleep-Well-at-Night" Finances, Stop Listening to The Noise™

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Garden Coffee Lady has got the Twitterverse in a tizzy through a seemingly innocuous tweet:

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The hate she’s received off the back of this has been both alarming, and very telling of our society’s predilection for listening to The Noise™.

The Noise™ is in its essence, societal pressure. Listening to what traditional media, your family and friends, society at large tells you is normal and what is not.

Garden Coffee Lady has riled up a lot of people because she’s not doing what is normal - she’s not listening to The Noise™.

The Noise™ would say the only way to live life is to have a 9-5, a house with a hefty mortgage, and perhaps a partner you’ve grown apart from because of those pesky kids. The Noise™ doesn’t have room for your garden coffee every morning and tells you the only way this is possible is if you’re rich, privileged, and childless. Aka, a hated figure.

The Noise™ tells you there is only one way to live. And that includes your finances as much as any other area of your life. If you want to whip your money into shape, the very first thing to do is stop listening to it every second of the day.