163 | Scattered and Separate

Our financial life's natural bend is towards being scattered and separate.

The physical scattering of accounts that come from innocent things like sign up bonuses, saving for a vacation, getting married, or changing jobs - good deeds that are slowly punished.

Which compound into mental scattering when you're trying to keep tabs on progress or make a decision of any magnitude.

Because it's hard to keep score, it's hard to know how to win the game.

First, we've got to name the feeling.

Then we've got to keep it from becoming the status quo.

Because once it's the status quo, you don't recognize it as scattered and separate anymore.

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