You Don’t Have to Be Rich to Have a Good Life

Limit your spending. Then focus on earning more

Darius Foroux
4 min readMay 24, 2024

--

Social media has warped our perspective about reality and “enjoying life.” It seems like it’s damn near impossible to live well with less money.

With the constant pressure to travel, dine at trendy restaurants, drive a fancy car, and have the newest gadgets, it’s easy to feel like we need a lot of money to enjoy life truly.

Sure, enjoying life does take a bit of money since nothing is for free. And even if you don’t plan to eat out a lot or are not into shopping, you still need to spend a certain amount to be comfortable.

The global inflation rate is on a downtrend, but it’s still higher than 10 years ago.

Whether we like it or not, everything is more expensive, and keeps getting more expensive.

But all of this doesn’t mean we need A LOT of money. It’s very much possible to enjoy life with less money.

Reality check: Most people can’t afford an expensive lifestyle

The big lie that social media convinces most folks to believe is that people are out there having the time of their lives 24/7.

--

--

Darius Foroux

I’m no longer publishing on Medium. Join my free weekly newsletter here: dariusforoux.com/wise-wealthy