Yes, building wealth is a challenge and it's a marathon, but sometimes the excuse making

can go a little too far and can actually stop your progress.

So today, I'm going to react to common money excuses that I hear from people who feel like

they are stuck with money and how to

shift that mindset to something better. Be sure to like, subscribe, and share this episode with

a friend. All right, excuse number one. I deserve the splurge. The whole I deserve it,

emotional response, gosh, usually can take in a lot of entitlement, y'all.

I'm gonna just say it out loud, I know, I know, I know.

Listen, working hard, being stressed, like there's a lot going on.

And like, oh, I just deserve it, I just deserve it.

When that becomes the mentality and that's the pattern over time,

that's a very dangerous place to be, because it actually starts to slip into all of

your decision making and ultimately how you're viewing life. So instead of that, be thinking,

okay, I can't buy things I want with money that I don't have. When you do that, you start to learn

to live below your means. You start to shop smarter, you start to spend money

that you actually have versus going into debt for things. So definitely, I would say, if you have the

ability to save up and to buy it, then yes, you can buy it. You can make the purchase, do the

experience, whatever it is. But that level of thinking of,

like, I just deserve it. Even if you have the money can sometimes cause you to make not great

decisions. So be thinking through that. But especially if you don't have the money, it causes you

to go into deeper debt. Excuse number two, I'll make more money later in life. So a lot of people

will put off and kind of say,

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