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The other day my wife and I were talking about the crazy things people spend money on. That led to a discussion of how we live, and we decided that we aren't much different from anyone else. Maybe we should change the way we spend money. Maybe our lives would actually improve if we lived more simply. I made a list of the things I didn’t want to give up, and it was amazing how many of the important things involve little or no expense. At the very top of the list was...well, never mind. But as for the rest... Walking on the beach, walking in the park, watching a sunset, birdwatching field trips, kayaking day trips, afternoon naps, stretching, going for a jog, using cell phone “minutes” to talk to family, spending time with friends, cooking great meals together at home, playing with the cats, doing volunteer work, maintaining our gardens, listening to music, reading books, browsing the web, visiting the art museum, writing blog entries, writing on the book project... There are costs associated with working out at our health club and going SCUBA diving in the summer, but we agreed that these activities are necessary for health and spirituality. On the other hand, we discovered that aside from the necessities of life, we don’t care much about most of the things we spend money on, so we've decided to cut back. This approach still feels a little new, but I’ve already noticed a change in my attitude. I feel noticeably better about how we live. It’s as if we have more now, not less, perhaps because we're focusing on the important things. (If you don’t mind my borrowing a cliché) I think it's wonderful that the best things in life (most of them, anyway) really are free.
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Dennis E. Coates is CEO of Performance Support Systems, author of MindFrames, a brain-based personality assessment system (www.initforlife.com) and co-founder of the Train-to-Ingrain alliance (www.train-to-ingrain.com, info@train-to-ingrain.com, 800-488-6463), which delivers a reinforcement-centered approach to learning and development that achieves permanent, measurable improvements in workplace behavior and positive impacts on business results.
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