Imagine someone who is financially successful.
Dollars to donuts, I bet you pictured someone with more than you – more income, more money, more things.
But that is financial STATUS, not financial SUCCESS.
Status is relative. Success is absolute.
Status is achieved or lost only by comparison.
If you make $1,000,000 a year, in some circles you’d possess massive financial status.
Yet, in other circles, you’d be a minnow swimming among whales.
Financial status is impossible to “win” because there will always be someone with more than you.
Financial success, however, doesn’t depend on anyone else.
It’s self-contained and subjective.
Financial success is having saved enough to not need a paycheck (or walking towards that goal on your own terms until you get there).
If you like the path you’re on, then you’re financially successful.
It doesn’t matter if you make $100,000 a year or $1,000,000.
