8 Simple Pleasures

The top 8 things you can spend you rmoney on that could bring joy. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
If you're waking up with six in the morning, kiss
one U seven one. Someone's financial advisors somewhere could even
be my own is going to cringe when I tell
you to go buy that coffee because it's a simple
pleasure and you should do it. Now. I came across
this list of the top eight things that people spend
money on that bring them joy, the simple pleasures. It's
about the little stuff. We've talked about that on our

(00:22):
show Little Wins, Little Things. I have to go that
way because I have ADHD and I didn't learn about
it until I was in my thirties that I had it,
And to get anywhere in this life, I have to
do things there to celebrate the little wins, you know, Okay,
Starting with number one, going to live concerts. It's mood boosting.

(00:43):
Your friends are together, everyone's singing. Spend the money on
the concert ticket, no matter what it is. I mean,
listen like a Beyonce tickets like you know, four hundred dollars.
But you can find cheaper concerts and just get out
the house and buy the ticket and go with your friends.
Novel experience is new things. New things trigger dopamine. As

(01:05):
an ADHD person. I'm kind of always looking for dopamin
too restaurants. I mean, it's really hard for me to
go to a new restaurant cause I panic. Time saving purchases,
meal delivery services not necessarily Uber eats, but like a
home chef or something like a housekeeper. Those are those
those time saving things bring you joy because you don't

(01:25):
have to obviously waste time, money, energy and effort. Right
activity boosting relationships. So book that trip to go see
your sister. If there's someone in your college inner circle,
like take the group text out of the group text
and meet those people in person. If there's someone you're like, oh,
I've been meaning to visit this person, book the trip
and go. Simple pleasures that bring you joy being generous

(01:49):
to others. That one is free giving back that tends
to bring mood boosting qualities. And then the last one
are those small joy that bring joy, like the four
dollars coffee rather than the bigger purchases like something that's
four hundred bucks. I thought that was an interesting take.

(02:10):
So as you're waiting in line right now for your
iced coffee, because iced over everything, always just know that
I'm you know, I'm sending it you do it. Someone
somewhere on the Internet said it's going to bring you joy.
Do it.