Ever complain about not earning enough and not having sufficient to spend. While it is good to be competitive and strive to improve the financial earning capability, balance approach is also to appreciate what one has currently. 1. Keep Comparing With Others Even if you were to strike the jackpot and win $1 million, you would still feel poor! There will always be someone richer than you, unless you are Carlos Slim, who is the richest man in the world at the moment. When you want everything, anything short of achieving that would come as a disappointment! 2. Living A Lifestyle Ahead of Schedule Affordability is relative. If your salary is $50k annually but you try to live the $100k lifestyle, your salary will never be enough! Delayed gratification will get you further, i.e. living the $50k lifestyle even if you are earning $100k. 3. The Glass Is Half ......