A day of abundance

Scarcity usually lives in habits rather than in the wallet: we say no to ourselves automatically, before we even do the maths. One day under different rules shows how many of those refusals were financial and how many were just habit.

Pick a day — today or one of the next three — and prepare for it. Morning: an unhurried shower, music or affirmations, the best clothes you own (none — buy one thing). Then live the day as someone who has enough: lunch at the restaurant you never enter, a test drive of your dream car, the purchase you kept postponing. Do not count small change, and decide in your own favour. Ask yourself what you would do if you were significantly richer — and do at least one thing from the answer.

What in that day was actually expensive — and what cost almost nothing but felt the same?