And you only know part of the story about “repurposing” that article… the original Biznik article was adapted from something I wrote that I read at my Living in Abundance Class. It’s a piece I’ve always loved. I found a way to “spin it” for a business audience with the “How Personal Spending Can Affect Your Business (and your Life), and in this article, I give it another spin entirely. But the “core” that has survived (with a few edits and additions) is the idea that what we really want is, ultimately, not consumer purchases, but a deeper satisfaction.

So, you copied your own work, huh? I had to laugh. I do it occasionally, too. As writers, so we don’t feel so bad about it, we call it “repurposing.”

Excellent piece here. Reading it, I couldn’t help but think how much spending is like an addiction. Just switch out “spending” with “lose weight” or stop drinking” and it all still works.

I so like your “substitute another behavior” advice (which also works for addictions). I have a list of “100 Things I Love” on my office wall. When I need a break, I pick one. They range from drawing with a thick black pen and playing with a snow globe to dancing with Nuz, my cat, and listening to 1940s jazz.

Thanks for giving me so much to think about. I love it when that happens.