When Will You Allow Yourself to Enjoy Life?

Stop trading things that matter for ones that don't. This is from James Clear. If you already live a comfortable life, then choosing to make more money but live a worse daily life is a bad trade. And yet, we talk ourselves into it all the time. We take promotions that pay more but swallow our free time. We

already have a successful business, but break ourselves trying to make it even more successful. Too much focus on wealth, not enough focus on lifestyle. And this is kind of goes back to the hidden and observable metrics thing that me and George Mack talk about whereby the more observable and quantifiable uh and socially rewarded a

particular metric is the more uh acclaim that it gives you. the more status that it affords, the more that you're going to lean into that and you know quality of lifestyle, you know, like real what is the day-to-day existence of you like how happy are you? How much spare time do you have to do the things that you

care about that is very hard to flex and it's very hard to measure as well. But your bank account is pretty easy to measure or the value of your house or the number of bedrooms that it's got or the growth of your company or your job title. All of these things, super easy

games and too much focus on wealth, not enough focus on lifestyle is a just a nice reframe. You know, it reminds us what are you trying to accumulate this wealth for? Presumably to afford yourself the kind of lifestyle that you enjoy. If you've already achieved a kind of lifestyle where you are happy and you

then worsen that in an attempt to make more money, the bar stool is upside down. You're sacrificing the thing you want for the thing that's supposed to get it. Uh and then Oliver Burkeman again says just because you're at the top does not mean that you're enjoying life. The upper ranks of corporate life