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“I make decent money but I'm always anxious it's never enough.”
The number goes up and the dread stays. That's the tell: the problem isn't the income, it's the absence of a defined 'enough.' Without a bound, more is never more - it just resets the hunger. Wealth isn't the next raise. It's the line you draw and trust.
Your Practice
- Write what 'enough' actually means for you, in concrete numbers and terms.
- Compare it to where you are. The gap may be smaller than the anxiety claims.
- Set a fixed savings bound, automate it, and stop renegotiating it daily.
- When the 'never enough' fear rises, return to your written definition.
The Architects
“I counted everything. I counted the steps to the road, the steps up to church, the number of dishes and silverware I washed, anything that could be counted, I did.”
Katherine Johnson, NASA Langley, "Katherine Johnson: The Girl Who Loved to Count" (2015); also on NASA's official biography and "A Lifetime of STEM"