that treated savings like "Experience Points."
Alex loved gaming but was drowning in student debt and living paycheck to paycheck. One night, after staring at a $2,000 custom PC build he couldn't afford, he opened Notepad and saved a blank file: 100k_Gaming.txt . 100k_Gaming.txt
: He forbade himself from buying new games until he finished five he already owned. This saved him hundreds in "Steam Sale" impulses. that treated savings like "Experience Points
By the time Alex reached his $100,000 goal three years later, the text file was several megabytes long. It contained: after staring at a $2
: He set a rule that he could only upgrade his hardware using money earned from his freelance "side-quests," never from his main savings. The Turning Point