The first step out of poverty is accepting personal responsibility. Stop blaming family, circumstances, or where you're from. Own your missed workdays, your diet failures, your lack of savings. When you claim fault, you become the person who can fix it.
The first lesson of getting out of poverty is two words. It's my fault. You basically have to own everything that passed to this moment. So all the pain that I've gone through, all of the Mondays that I've missed, all of the diets that I've skipped, all of the savings I haven't made, all of those are not my dad's fault, my mom's fault, my circumstances fault, the country I was born in's fault, the zip code, any of those things fault. It's just mine. And in it being my fault, I am the one who can get me out of it.
