Julia Carpenter
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3,850 appearances
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first heard Oct 2019
last heard Sep 2024
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Totally not fair to blame entirely on politics.
I wrote in the piece about how a friend and I recently got together and what was supposed to be kind of a low-key getaway became bougier and bougier and bougier.
I cannot blame that on politics.
I can blame it on a couple other things.
But I think it is this feeling of overwhelm that an election cycle contributes to.
I'm one of those people who, in an election year, I spend way too much time on my phone.
Every new news alert, every new tweet, every new update, that becomes my obsession for the day.
And so I'm like those people who feel that overwhelm.
I focus too much on what could happen and not enough on what I can do and what I've prepared for.
It depends on what kind of financial person you are.
If you are someone who knows that it helps you to prepare, it helps you to focus on your financial plan, it helps you to focus on your sphere of control, then you'll do that.
If you're someone who thinks, well, it helps me to go to the beach with my friend and get massages, that was me, then that's what you're gonna do.
And it's all about retraining your brain
to become less of one thing and more of another.
So when I was speaking with advisors for this piece, their advice to me was focus on your sphere of control.
Think about what is in your wheelhouse, what you can direct.
That was a huge comfort to me.
Advisors told me that when things feel big, you can focus on the small.
And that was hugely helpful to me.
So when I'm reading headlines, worrying about what the next few years could bring, trying to predict market cycles in my head, interest rates in my head, instead of doing all of that big stuff, I can focus on small.
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