The Jim Fortin Podcast

Ep 445: Throwback To Ep241: “Are You Excessively Spending Or Investing Your Life?

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Nov 20, 2025
Explore the intriguing perspective on how thoughts can be both a spending and investing mechanism in life. Jim uses a clever swear jar metaphor to highlight the costs of negative thoughts versus the benefits of positive thinking. He emphasizes the importance of awareness, choosing where to focus attention, and the transformative power of gratitude. The discussion includes a five-step pattern interrupt process to help retrain the brain and shift emotional states, encouraging a practice of investing emotionally rather than wasting energy on fear.
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INSIGHT

Life As Spending Or Investing

  • Jim Fortin reframes life as either spending or investing your time, attention, and energy.
  • Spending energy on low-value activities reduces your capacity to create desired outcomes.
ANECDOTE

Swear Jar For Thoughts

  • Fortin uses a swear-jar metaphor: each negative thought costs you like a dollar.
  • He asks listeners to imagine how many dollars they'd deposit for daily fear and negativity.
INSIGHT

Worry Is Wasting Life

  • Time spent in fear and worry is framed as wasting your life and energy.
  • Excessive worrying damages physiology and undermines creation of positive outcomes.
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