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You are doing your very best to build frugal habits of saving, paying debt and building wealth. You feel great about your actions and give yourself pats on the back; that is until you see that next door neighbor park their new car in front of their door. That relative is taking a week trip to Cancun and it is not in the budget for you to go. As you see those on social media "living their best life" shopping, trips, weekends at clubs and bars as well as taking selfies of themselves in designer clothes. The entrepreneurs you know personally are succeeding. You get a feeling of let down because you wonder why you are where you are and these people are 'above you'.
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First of all, the people you see around you and on social media are not 'above you'. Why compare your beginning with some else's end? There was a program I loved to watch as a teen called "Lets Make A Deal" (I know there is a new version but the old version was king!). The host, Monty Hall was the salesman of salesman. He would ask the guests (dressed like all kinds of characters) to pick a curtain. The guests think that what was behind that curtain is going to be great until they find out different (a donkey with the announcer dressed like a farmer feeding it!). The point is to compare your journey with what you see is detrimental to ever achieving your goals of prosperity and abundance (as well as maintaining frugality). You never know what these people have gone through to get where they are now.
The best way of dealing with these types of scenarios is to stay in your own lane....period! Lots of those people you see are successful while others fake the funk. Yes dears, lots of what you see on social media (and in real life) fake the situations; while others live their true selves. Time always reveals the truth about everything. By staying in your own lane, your focus is on improving not only your financial situation but your mental and emotional well-being. You will feel a lot better as your focus increases because you will no longer be at the place you are now but where the successful people you see are now.
Stay focused, determined and stay in your own lane. Until next time...
Stay Frugal and Proud,
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