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This episode is about the relativity of money. This thought came from a recent conversation I had with Leisa Peterson of WealthClinic.com, but we were talking about scarcity mindset.  We were talking about how often, there never seems to be enough money no matter how much we make.  Following that conversation, I thought some more about it.  No matter how much money I’ve earned, I’ve always been able to live relatively comfortably within my means.  I haven’t always been able to buy all the things I’ve wanted, or travel wherever or whenever, but I feel like I’ve been pretty lucky.  Whenever I’ve come into extra money though, it seems that my lifestyle would quickly absorb that extra income. The other side is also true.  When I’ve earned less, my lifestyle seemed to automatically adjust to compensate for having less money coming in.  Three examples come to mind immediately. First, When I took a job as a teacher, I took roughly a $10,000 pay cut from what I was earning in the corporate sector.  Oddly, I needed mo