So Money with Farnoosh Torabi · Monday, September 7, 2026
Maria Melchor, author of 'Always Have Enough,' emphasizes the importance of defining personal financial goals to establish clear limits on what constitutes 'enough.' She advises confronting numbers and regularly checking progress rather than getting caught in the anxiety of potentially never having enough.
“You will never have enough if you feel responsible for an indefinite amount of problems, for an indefinite amount of responsibilities.”
“And so what I do in the book is just show you, hey, you have to confront your numbers, define your unique goals so that you have these actually really beautiful limits and boundaries to your definition of enough.”
“Only then, when you have been able to put some limits around what you want, can you start doing the math and figuring out if you have enough?”