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Identity Comes First

Before you build wealth, you build a self-image.

Most of us were taught to see money as something we survive, fear, or react to. That shapes how we move. If you see yourself as “bad with money,” you’ll avoid it, or waste it. If you see yourself as “just getting by,” you’ll make decisions that keep you there.

An ownership mindset starts with a different identity:

I am someone who plans. I am someone who learns. I am someone who builds.

When you change how you see yourself, your behavior follows. Budgets stop feeling like punishment. Saving becomes protection. Investing becomes a vote for your future.

You don’t become disciplined and then change your indentity. You change your identity—and discipline grows naturally.

This is the work: Not just learning what to do with money, but becoming the kind of person who does it.

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