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“Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.”
— Benjamin Franklin
For me, money leaks are often emotional. I spend to make myself better, I spend to avoid, I spend because I haven’t paused long enough to ask, do I actually want this? The frustrating thing is I know I don’t need more stuff. (I lived on a canal boat for a year so I know how simple you can make your life).
But today and this week I am going to start to notice, where my money leaks are. I’m not talking about cutting joy or living on rice and virtue. This isn’t austerity, it’s awareness.
And what has money got to do with writing? Well — kind of everything, for me.
When money feels tight or messy, it puts pressure on my writing life. I start telling myself I should stop working on my novel and focus only on earning — which is complicated by the fact that I earn my money through writing anyway. Suddenly everything feels urgent, charged and heavy. The page stops feeling like a little sanctuary in my day but just another thing on my to-do list.
Right now, my finances feel like a drawer that’s been shut too quickly — it would be a relief to open it and see what’s actually there. Not to fix it all in one go. Just to understand it better.
So this week, the reset is simple: no fixing, no cancelling in a frenzy, no guilt.
Just noticing where money is quietly leaving — and whether it still feels like a fair exchange.
Because energy, time and money are all part of the same system. And there’s no point pouring care into a bucket with a hole in it.
Prompt:
Where is money quietly leaking from your life at the moment?
What would change if you simply noticed it — without judging or acting — for one week?
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