Reward Yourself
Many Americans live lavishly but finance their lifestyles with credit cards or high-interest rate loans. In this chapter, I’d like to connect with those of you on the other end of the spectrum, who deprive yourself to a point of making life almost unbearable. If you ignore the need to reward yourself, you will regret it later on! To be honest, I’m writing this from personal experience. I’ve always been the guy working harder than necessary but never feeling like it was enough to deserve a reward. At times I made more money in one day than many of my friends had made in months. But even with that great income, I still lived in the back of one of my phone stores and drove a beat-up old truck. I refused to spend money on anything that wasn’t building the business. I reasoned that every dollar I put in generated a