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Money

I Tracked Every Impulse Purchase for 72 Hours. What I Found Was Not a Money Problem.

Abraham Ojo

May 15, 2026

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A woman on a couch late at night with a laptop open to a shopping cart, her face lit by the screen, the expression of someone buying something that is not about the item.

You do not have a budgeting problem. You have a self-soothing problem dressed up as consumer behavior. The 72-hour rule does not stop you from buying. It stops you from hiding.

#money #emotional-spending #discipline #self-awareness #habits #intentional-living #identity #luminaries

Mental Health

You Know All the Right Words. That Is Not the Same as Doing the Work.

Abraham Ojo

May 2, 2026

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A woman sits in a therapy waiting room with an open workbook on her lap and a pen in her hand, looking at nothing, the page still blank.

One is understanding. The other is reps. Most people have spent years on the first and avoided the second. Here is the difference.

#mental-health #self-awareness #behavior-change #therapy #personal-growth #healing #identity #luminaries

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I Tracked Every Impulse Purchase for 72 Hours. What I Found Was Not a Money Problem.

You Know All the Right Words. That Is Not the Same as Doing the Work.