The Luminaries Journal
Posts tagged with #intentional-living.
This archive holds every Luminaries article tagged intentional living. 7 articles so far, working through intentional living and money, all written by Abraham Ojo. The most recent is "56% of Americans Chatted About News Online Last Week. 53% Say Their Phone Takes Too Much Time. Attention Needs a Plan.". Each post stands on its own, and the full list is at the bottom of this page.
Pew reports most Americans talk about news online, and over half say their phone takes too much time. Attention goes where you send it. Decide before you open the feed.
Time with friends has collapsed since 2003. A wave of paid, phone-free "third places" is charging people by the hour to get some of it back, and it is working.
A generation got tired of pretending they could afford things. Saying the budget out loud turns a private promise into a public standard, and that is exactly why it works.
You did not choose most of your life. You inherited it from unchallenged defaults. The career that made sense at 22. The city that was convenient. The habits that accumulated without permission.
Every raise you have ever received came with a choice. You chose the apartment, the car, the dinners. You could have chosen freedom. Here is the math on what that cost.
7 articles by Abraham Ojo, grouped by the theme each one works through.