You CAN Live an Incredible Life on a Relatively Small Amount of Money

Reframe what success means and life gets really, really good, really, really cheaply

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I have a hypothesis for you.

I posit that people who intentionally live on a relatively small amount of money (rather than people who are unfortunately forced to do so through circumstance) have better standards of living — and more fun — than people who live with more.

Why? Because they have chosen their lifestyle.

The older I become the more I realize that our relationship with money — and whether it’s a healthy or unhealthy one — isn’t just down to how much we have. It’s whether we are master of it, or it is master of us. Who controls who?

Living a smaller, simpler life is taking control. And with control comes an opening to experience an awesome life.