The internet is full of people who “made it”. People who invested in crypto and became billionaires overnight. People who created their dream businesses and became financially free. We see these success stories everywhere, but more often than not, they seem like a distant reality for us—at least they did for me. Growing up with more of a scarcity mindset than an abundance mindset, deep inside of me there is this fear that there’s just not enough success to go around. Not enough money to go around. For the longest time, I believed that another person's success inevitably equaled my own failure. It's like, yeah, I could be successful with what I'm doing, but since there are already other people who are killing it, I won't be able to make it. My self-concept was that I'm simply not a successful person.
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