Squeeze the Stone

This was a shocker to me, but the more people I started to see after I opened my practice, the more the numbers spoke for themselves. Most of the people who had major credit card debt were people you would consider affluent. It seemed as if the more money they made, the more disrespect they had for their money.
My associate, Janet, recently did an informal survey in our area, and out of the sixty people we talked to, all leaders in the community, all of them carried credit card debt. How much debt? Only eleven had debt below $1,000. All the rest had debt ranging from $6,000 to $45,000. When we started asking around among these people if they thought others like them carried debt as well, they all guessed wrong. They would say, “Absolutely not.,,
All these people made great money and were highly regarded in the community. Credit card debt is rarely created Out of true need. It fills up, even if just for a moment, something else that is missing. If you hide it from others, as these people did, and believe you’re alone in your debt, you create a secret as burdensome as the debt itself.

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