And with that, let's get right to the post and commentary from Diana as we optimize your life.

Manage Your Time, Improve Your Finances by Andrea Joy of savingjoyfully.com.

If the saying is correct that time is money, then time management can be an important aspect of financial management.

Time is one of our most precious commodities.

We never have enough time for everything, and finding free time is almost always a challenge.

Keep in mind as you read further, I am a wife, mother of a five-month-old infant, blogger, and full-time employee.

Time management does not come easy for me.

Do me a favor if you could and tell them Optimal Living Daily sent you to support the show.

Just like an authority figure?

Yeah.

Yeah, authority figure.

So, and when I hit nine, this thought just popped out of nowhere, but I was really starting to think like, "Huh, I should just, like, kill myself.

Like, that sounds like such a good idea." And I don't know where that even came from 'cause I didn't, like, I wasn't really exposed to that kind of thing growing up in a Christian household and pretty much being like, "Oh, everything is fine.

Everything is great.

Jesus loves you." So that thought just was in the back of my mind for a while, and then I didn't act on it at all.

Yeah.

Can any dog be trained to be a label learner?

Oh, heavens no.

You see, a label-learning dog is a very rare thing.

For example, my Boo Boo Bear is a highly sophisticated Border Collie.

In fact, you didn't hear this from me, but some of his relatives were used in the actual experiment conducted for the study that this class is based on.

Wait, his relatives?

Oh, yes.

This experimental research from Budapest was conducted on a group of 10 dogs, all deemed label learners.

Ça se passe bien au début ?

Ça se passe très bien.

Les premières semaines, c'est moi qui fais le ménage le temps de trouver une personne qui puisse prendre le relais.

Euh, ça se passe très très bien.

Le monsieur est remis en confiance.

Il m'avait— donc, il avait eu plusieurs mois sans entreprise puisqu'il avait eu un litige avec l'entreprise précédente.

Donc, il fallait le remettre en confiance.

Mais il ne vous donne aucune raison.

And Diana, I mean, you feeling quite inspired just being here and surrounded by, you know, the, the top echelons of motorsport for what you want to go on to do?

do?I want to do da- data science.

So I've heard about, um, in motorsports there's data engineers, software engineers, and I wasn't really sure about how much, um, software or computer science goes behind motorsports.

So it's really interesting for me to be here and learn about Formula 1.

And being here today, do you feel like it is possible, you can go on to achieve what you want to do?

Yes.

Um, and Mission 44's all about bringing people of color or, like, women like myself into the tech field, and especially in motorsports.

I never thought about motorsports, but being here now, I'm more inspired to be part of it.

But for now, let's get right to the bonus episode and Diana's commentary as we optimize real life.

Choose your status game wisely by Nick Maggiulli of, of dollarsanddata.com.

When I was a kid, I didn't really understand status.

I didn't understand why some people would grant more social value to others based on their wealth, fame, or talents.

I grew up in the middle class, and everyone I knew was in the middle class or close to it as well.

Therefore, the only time I saw status was on television: musicians, athletes, actors and actresses.

You were either a celebrity or a normal person, and there was nothing in between.

See homedepot.com/pricematch for details.

Mhm.

Y he tenido muchos problemas con él últimamente porque me cela mucho.

Y el tiempo que-- él viaja a Estados Unidos.

Entonces, el tiempo que él estuvo aquí me celaba mucho con un abonero.

Y, este, y muchas veces me ha dicho: «No, pues si quieres ya terminamos o como quieras».

Y así.

Y voy con mi mamá a visitarlo, así dice que me voy con X persona.

[risas]

Just picture me nodding along intelligently.

[laughs] It's weird, though.

I've already taken it apart and put it back together, and it looks fine.

But any time I plug it in...

Here, give me a sec.

[static] See what I mean?

[beep]

[crying] Rubes, he's coming.

So with that, here's Diana reading for you and her commentary as we optimize your life.

The Market Herd is Human Nature by Chris Reining of chrisreining.com. A scorpion asks a frog to carry it across a river.

The frog hesitates, afraid of being stung, but the scorpion argues that if it did so, they would both drown.

Considering this, the frog agrees, but midway across the river, the scorpion does indeed sting the frog, dooming them both.

While drowning, the frog cries, "But why?" Replies the scorpion, "It's in my nature." Just like the scorpion, it's in our nature to do what humans do.

For one, we obsess about low probability events and take risks on the high probability ones, like being terrified to fly on an airplane, but not wearing a seatbelt when driving a car.

Getting out of the stock market when it falls and getting back in when it rises.

Instant room upgrade.

When your first husband, um, Sigero Sony, was killed, did the police find any suspects?

Uh, yes, one.

Fernand Gautier, a young man who had been an assistant in our magician's act.

A stupid, good-looking boy who thought he was in love with me.

But of course, Inspector Lestrade had to release him.

There was no evidence.

Doesn't it occur to you that, uh, a great deal of conflict will be caused, also that Major Beckwith's life is in obvious danger?

Of course it occurs to me, my dear man.

Mm-hmm.

I met him in the fall.

We started chatting.

I didn't, like, actually meet him in person for about a month, just trying to get comfortable, trying to figure out if he was something that I, someone that I was interested in, like, pursuing a play partnership or whatever with.

And the very first time we went out, we had gone to a Halloween thing with some coworkers of mine 'cause my, my fear was like, "Oh, God, if I go into a public setting with him and I don't know him, then what do I do? I'm gonna have some friends as backup." He ended up fingering me on a hayride with everyone around me, so...

[laughs]

You say that he prefers to have those conversations in person, but, like, how do you know that? Have you ever said to him, "Hey, are you into guys?" And if so, what did he say back?

He has said that he's not, and he's just, like, more comfortable being around guys, I guess.

But for now, let's get right to the bonus episode and Diana's commentary as we optimize your life.

Your obsession with being perfect could cost you six figures by Kelly Long with financialfinesse.com. As a recovering perfectionist, I feel slightly hypocritical even writing about this.

Perhaps I should title the post "How I'd Be Wealthier if I'd Gotten Over Perfectionism Sooner." But either way, I need to call out something I've noticed more and more in my conversations with peers and colleagues who are forty and younger.

There's an obsession with perfect that is getting in the way of a lot of things.

Read Brené Brown's Gifts of Imperfection if you really want to get into it.

But when it comes to money, it's costing real dollars.

Perfect as a goal.

Head to superpower.com and use code OLD at checkout for twenty dollars off your membership.

You're so little

Uh, that doesn't, that doesn't look like you guys are going through a tornado [laughs].

Your sister walking.

In Oklahoma.

In Oklahoma.

And, and I mean, when that house started shaking the first time, we live right next to the train, and I was like, "Oh, no, the train derailed.

[laughs] It's, it's coming for our house."