I finished paying my car off last month.
This is my first month without a car payment in years.
And, like clockwork, I downloaded the cars app and started browsing new cars.
I don’t need a new car. I’m in an excellent position with my current car. It’s an excellent brand in excellent condition and is expected to continue running excellently for years and years to come.
…And yet, I still had that urge to search for upgrades.
To get something newer, with fewer miles, that’s all electric…
Something that might not even cost me that much if I get a good enough price for my car and a good enough deal on a new one…
…Isn’t it interesting how that works?
How excited and thrilled and fully satisfied we feel at the outset…
And then how all of a sudden, once we own that thing or have used it for a while, something changes inside…
Because it isn’t the thing that changes—not really at least.
It’s something else that changes that’s actually completely within our control…
And that thing is… our perspective.
And my current thought to myself is, if I can do some inner work to change my perspective back… to appreciate my car like it was my first month with it once again, it’ll be as though I’m taking out a whole new lease on my car—without taking on any kind of new lease at all (which is my favorite kind of lease).
…Which is how it works for taking out a whole new lease on life, too.