Right. Even though my fixed expenses were low, my discretionary spending was pretty high. Eating out, going on vacation. Right. Spending on watches.
Acquiring Minds
"Life is Just Brighter" in a $1.2m Distribution Business
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Right. You know, buying a car, etc. Right. There's a lot of that and the discipline of controlling that while you're making a lot of money is very difficult. So the one thing that I also learned that you know, wasn't really a, you know, something I thought about during diligence.
But now my life now, even though I'm making less of, of income, my control on all my costs and budgeting is way better than what I had when I was in finance. Just because when you know you're gonna have money coming in, right.
Like spending a dollar, whatever, just spending $10,000, you know, over the, the weekend or the month, you know, it doesn't, doesn't really impact you which is something that it, it creates what is called like lifestyle creepy.
Sure.
When you're in finance and you know you buy a big house, right. You're, you're levered to the gills, you have a mortgage payment, car payment. So I made sure before I got to that point I really like now I'm here, right.
So I'm. Luckily I'm not at that point where I have heavy fixed expenses. But that was one thing that I want to note on, you know, leaving that high paying job. It's a different mindset of how you're living life now.
I'm just living way more, I would say responsibly. Yeah, I'm living. It is, I mean, yeah, but, but.
It was, Was there any discomfort in tightening up your lifestyle? The fact that you couldn't just, you know, blow money? I, I know that's a problem with the fortune, but, but it did mean that you had to get your arms around your lifestyle.
Um, and so, you know, it can be hard to, it can be hard to kind of step back or at least feel like you're stepping back. Even though we, we all understand that there are these whys to going down this path that are much bigger than, you know, blowing money, being able to blow money still. It's like, oh, I, I have to watch the, watch my money now.
And before I didn't. And that's a change to your day to day.
Yeah, no, I mean, I would say the, the change is not, was not as difficult as I expected. I think with going into a, the ETA journey, owning your own business. I had to correct a lot of ways that I was living, whether that's, you know, health or, you know, habits or you know, financial control.
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