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You Deserve to Be Rich

Nour Boustani
5 min readMay 30, 2022

Repeat after me; I deserve to be rich; I deserve to be rich; I deserve to be very rich.

Of course you do; what makes you think otherwise?

It’s fascinating how most people talk themselves out of money for unobvious reasons. I was one of these people who had no desire to earn big money.

Friends: what do you think of this beautiful Lamborghini
Me: not interested
Friends: how about that beautiful beach house?
Me: nope
Friends: look at that gorgeous Armani suit
Me: why should I buy that?

Oh god, what was wrong with me? Now I regret every no I said, and I wish I could go back in time and replace it with a definite YES! Why not!

I recently met a talented young man from Malaysia called “Amir.” He graduated from one of the best colleges in the united states with a master’s degree in computer science.

His brother is a good friend of mine, a pretty successful cardiologist, and he asked me to sit with his brother and talk about money problems.

The situation with Amir is that he was broke, as broke as it could get.

He wasn’t poor; his family could provide, but he was broke; he was getting into his 35 and couldn’t…

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Nour Boustani
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