If money has always felt like luck handed to other people, here is the reframe that changes everything: earning is a game with learnable rules — and the rules you are playing by now were handed to you long before you could choose them.
Money begins in the mind long before it ever reaches your wallet. See it for what it truly is — a tool, not a master — and your whole relationship with it begins to change.
Most people will say yes the moment you ask. They read the books, take the notes, nod along. But coachable is not a self-assessment — it is what you did between the lesson ending and the next one starting.
Most of us are walking around in an attitude our parents, our schools, and our early disappointments installed in us — and we call it "who I am." It is not who you are. It is what was given to you. And it can be given back.
Your child finished matric and is sitting at home, and you do not know what to say. School filled the cup but never showed them the cup. Here are the two lessons that begin the real curriculum — for them, and for you.
A direct word to South African learners weighing whether to stay in school or step away. Two paths sit in front of you today — and the one you choose is already shaping the person you are becoming.
South Africa is pouring R1.8 billion into young entrepreneurs and still only 3.5% of them are starting a business. The funding is not the gap. The mind is. Sam on the inner work the country cannot do for you.