"Proper etiquette is essential in customer service, and retaining tips should be viewed with ethics and respect for paying consumers. The actions of service providers impact their reputation and future interactions with customers."
Your environment is branding your brain. Every conversation, every room, every feed is shaping what you think is possible. Hang around people who settle and you'll start to shrink without noticing.
Whenever you purchase something unnecessary, you take the same dollar amount and transfer it to your savings. Did you just get a $7 latte? A $30 shirt? A $200 watch? Open up your banking app and move the same amount immediately.
The world is a very malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and drive and passion, the world will often reconfigure itself around you much more quickly and easily than you would think.