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Chapter 1: The Cave
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Chapter 2: It Starts With a Story
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Chapter 3: How Does One Live Life Well
3. Powerful Goodness was Benjamin Franklins way of referring to God. He was a man of faith but didnt care for the work of most of the preachers he encountered.
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Chapter 4: Addition Isnt Possible Without Subtraction
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Chapter 5: All You Can Eat Habits
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Chapter 6: Money
6. You are likely going to see a lot of expenses in these statements and you might not feel great about all of them. This is perfectly normal! When I did this exercise, I saw 15 iTunes purchases of Taylor Swift songs. (T-Swift totally gets me!) That many individual purchases was the equivalent of 3 months of Apple Music, which offers unlimited songs.
7. In this equation 100 is an arbitrary weight.
8. See https://www.lifelisted.com/min under the heading Financial Resources for the most up-to-date resource for converting gift cards into cash.
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Chapter 7: Time
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Chapter 8: Work
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Chapter 9: Housing
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Chapter 10: Transportation
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Chapter 11: Communication
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Chapter 12: E-mail
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Chapter 13: Mobile Phone
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Chapter 14: Objects
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Chapter 15: Books
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Chapter 16: Photos
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Chapter 17: Computers
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Chapter 18: Clothing
17. If you dont trust your memory to remember if you have worn something in 12 months, consider turning all of the clothes you plan on keeping inside-out and only correcting them when you have worn them. This way, when you do this exercise again in the future, you will easily be able to see which clothes you have not worn as they will be inside- out.
18. Many people find it useful to go through their keep pile a second time before completing the exercise. After you have sorted your clothes once, you have a much better perspective on what is really worth keeping.
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Chapter 19: Travel
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Chapter 20: Gifts
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Chapter 21: Food
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Chapter 22: Exercise
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