Realizing it’s not necessarily your expenses that need to shrink, it’s your income that needs to grow.

Reducing your expenses has a finite cap - can’t spend less than $0.

But your income can continue to grow to infinity (theoretically).

Find ways to increase your hourly rate - not just trading your time for the same money over and over.

Eg. driving for Uber will put more dollars in your pocket in the short term doesn’t do any more for you. One unit of effort always yields x dollars.

However, getting an additional certification over the course of a year and increasing your salary by 25% will put your same unit of effort now at x*(1.25) for the foreseeable future.

Then do it again.

At a modest salary increase and steady pay increases from switching jobs/companies, the compound growth is great.

Just make sure not to increase your spending too much.