I think it helped me a lot to "practice" by living on nothing but saved money for 6-12 month periods a couple of times earlier in life. I always found myself ve

I think it helped me a lot to "practice" by living on nothing but saved money for 6-12 month periods a couple of times earlier in life. I always found myself very happy and with plenty of exciting things to do during these periods, so when I finally left the rat race for real I knew exactly how I wanted to structure my life.