I believe anyone can be wealthy, including myself.

She'd lend a friend five hundred pounds without blinking and won't spend fifty on a coat she's wanted since March. Both decisions come from the same person on the same afternoon.

Generosity of belief works the same way. It's easy to look at somebody else's ambition and think obviously, why not — and to apply a completely different standard to your own, one that demands proof before it will grant permission.

Extending it to yourself is the part that takes work. Applied to anyone else, it was never in doubt.