That realization got me thinking about how our feelings about money shape the choices we make, including the ones we make to impress other people. I’ve given that behavior a name: ego debt.

I almost had to do a double take at the gas pump this week. Fortunately, I work from home, so I don't have to fill up very often. But about three and a half weeks ago, I paid $4.49 a gallon. This week? $5.01. Excuse me? That's a 52-cent increase in less than a month where I live. Then I went to the grocery store and saw a regular-size candy bar for $1.97. Not the king size. Not the family size. The regular one. You're not imagining it. Life is expensive. And I don't know how

Sometimes you have to make uncomfortable financial decisions today to create a more comfortable life tomorrow. I've lived that. If you're in a season where you're cutting back, restructuring or picking up extra work, don't look at it as failure. Look at it as positioning.

My son looked me straight in the face and said, "But we have the money." We were at the store. He wanted something that wasn't on the shopping list. Keep in mind we created the shopping list together before leaving the house. I said not today. And that's when he hit me with it – the line every parent knows. "But we HAVE the money." I almost laughed. Because y'all... that's exactly how we think as adults too. If I got it, I should spend it, right? Wrong. Having the money and b

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