Money Anxiety and the Art of Letting Go

I can build a spreadsheet for almost anything, but spreadsheets never quieted the 3 a.m. worry. That took a different kind of work entirely.

Naming the fear, separating what I can control from what I can't, and building a small buffer did more for my peace than any rate of return ever has.

Security is partly a number and partly a feeling. Tend to both, and the number tends to follow.