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Why Are Gas Prices so High? Your Questions Answered!

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If you’re living day to day with no thought for the future, then as soon as something happens to throw off your plans (like illness or getting fired) then your psyche will be too busy panicking about survival to contribute anything useful to the community.

When I started out in my career, I knew that one day I’d have to handle my own money — but with no money of my own to work with, it was easy to shunt that fact aside. Only when my wife got a good job and we began to think about having kids did it truly hit me: If we weren’t careful, we were going to be permanently broke.

👉🏻 Creating your own financial plan for financial independence can take some time and may involve sitting down with an advisor who will help you think through exactly what it is you want to achieve from your work-life balance and money decisions.

Where does the money we spend on gas go?

If you’re living day to day with no thought for the future, then as soon as something happens to throw off your plans (like illness or getting fired) then your psyche will be too busy panicking about survival to contribute anything useful to the community.

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But how can you do that if you’re even more stressed out about money than your own? Why does this matter? It matters because humans are basically selfish animals (you know, like every other animal). If you’re living day to day with no thought for the future, then as soon as something happens to throw off your plans (like illness or getting fired) then your psyche will be too busy panicking about survival to contribute anything useful to the community.

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Some states also require specific fuel blends to control emissions, which may be more expensive.

Worse still is when those survival issues are compounded by debt and fear of the future – that’s hell on Earth; literally. You need to fix yourself from the inside in order to be able to build yourself from the outside into something that can change the world in a positive way.

Jason Borrough

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