Sunday World (South Africa)

What is hindering our financial success?

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The problem is that most of the people are defining success in terms of other people. The only fair way to judge success is by using yourself as a measuring stick.

Have you taken steps to put yourself in a better situation than you were in before? That’s all that matters.

It is unrealisti­c to compare your financial state to someone else’s who was given a huge inheritanc­e, for example. The only race worth running is against your prior behaviour.

When you strip away the advantages (and disadvanta­ges) that other people have, you’re left with nothing but yourself.

Can you do better than you

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