Your no-regret money purchases
Oh, hi friends!
What are some things you never regret spending money on?
Mine are books, plane tickets, theater tickets, and peanut M&Ms, for starters.
It’s an interesting question, and not just ‘cause by day I work at MONEY magazine, where there’s lots and lots of talk about money. The answers give you a good sense of what I care about: learning, traveling, art, sugar.
Your own answers to this question can be a North Star of sorts. They can illuminate what you value, or what you would like more of in your life.
Sometimes people tell me that they don’t like their jobs and don't know what they should do next. The first question: What are you interested in? Finding that out can be as simple as looking at where your money goes — and where the guilt doesn’t follow.
(Btw, I tweeted this question yesterday and loved the responses—follow me and join in! I’d love to know your no-regret purchases.)
Photo by Jared Rice on Unsplash
Oh, hi! It’s Thursday! Let’s hang on for dear life!
“When you fail in public, you are forcing yourself to learn a whole new set of skills, skills that have nothing to do with creating and everything to do with surviving.
Jerome Robbins liked to say that you do your best work after your biggest disasters. For one thing, it’s so painful, it almost guarantees that you won’t make those mistakes again. Also, you have nothing to lose; you’ve hit bottom, and the only place to go is up. A fiasco compels you to change dramatically. The golfer Bobby Jones said, “I never learned anything from a match I won.” He respected defeat and he profited from it.”
I have been meaning to read Twyla Tharp’s book The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life for years—I’ve flipped through it in bookstores, seen it atop every list of essential books on creating, and had it lingering in my online cart more than once. Today I finally bought it. (h/t Kyle Jackson)
A Necessary Drug
When I’m writing or editing, I can’t listen to songs with lyrics so I usually put an instrumental song on repeat (for, like, forever). On Spotify, I’ve been listening to this version of “How Far I’ll Go” (yes, the Moana song!!!) by the violin-and-piano duo 92 Keys. It’s also on YouTube! It perks me up. I love it.
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara