When it comes to money - self-sabotage is a thing

When it comes to money, self-sabotage is a thing because a lot of people make financial decisions that lead to ruins without realizing it until it is rather too late. I remember when I first saw the movie, Neon, I saw Santi trying to do everything Isa wanted just to earn a place in the music industry.

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I did not judge nor blame him because he was desperate to make it in the industry and show naysayers that he could move from being an internet musician to a real one. His popularity started on social media when one of his songs went viral. A lot of people who made it in the industry did not count him as one of them.

Maybe they thought social media fame does not count since you literally do not have to spend a large amount of budget to get your music off the ground. Social media made doing music and finding an audience to listen to them easy and cost-effective. So, I would blame the oldies for looking down on Santi.

If you watch the series you will also see that Santi's desperation had made him cozy up to Isa. Isa who treated him like dirt. She took advantage of his innocence and hunger to make it and used dirty tricks to get him to do her bidding. They started a fake relationship for the sake of the media. Santi was cornered into giving his sing away.

He did not only do the duet with Isa, but he was also made to change the lyrics of the song and this affected the original meanings too. His friends tried to make him see reasons. He was losing himself and his friends because he was focused on fame instead of focusing on mastering himself, and his talents.

He was indirectly sabotaging himself. In the end, his friends helped him regain consciousness and see things clearly. The few mistakes he made were forgivable because he was new to everything the industry had to offer. But he is a perfect example of people who allow the craze of being famous and relevant sabotage them.

You do not necessarily have to be a musician to do this. There are other ways you could be sabotaging yourself and your finances without knowing. It could be greed. The urge to make it big right now might lure you into making certain financial decisions that end up ruining you and leaving you feeling robbed. It could be a lack of money management. Some of us just spend without thinking twice about how our expenses are affecting our overall financial health.

Splurging on the things we do not need and sometimes trying to impress those people we barely even like. A large amount of people are just too lazy to be financially educated, they shy away from learning about their finances, and they leave all the work to their account managers. They run off from learning how to invest wisely for the sake of their future.

They allow fear to hold them back and all. It might even shock you to know that these ones allow opportunities that could have turned their financial positions around to slip right through their fingers. They do not make an effort to understand market cycles or how to judge the people they get into business with. Speaking of judging people, a lot of people allow the gauge of friendship to blind them to losing money.

Just because their friend shows up with an investment opportunity, they do not do their due diligence, they get right up and invest, and end up losing money. There are lots of other ways, people do things that sabotage their access to wealth, It is important for everyone to do checks and balances and free themselves from the frustrations that come with these situations.