How can I afford

We need to change our attitudes about money. This is a one step process, and involves only playing a little mental game. The game is asking yourself "How can I afford?" Each time you run across something that seems outside of your financial means, play this game.

When you decide that you cannot afford something, you lose. As soon as you thing "it is too expensive", you have given up. If you quit, you will never be able to afford to retire, much less the nicer things in life. But if you keep asking the question, it will change your life.

The $100 shoes (mine belong on my brakes) that were unattainable, suddenly become a simple matter of mowing 10 lawns. Or the $2000 transmission (seeing a running car theme here ?) is as easy as buying and selling 100 widgets at $20 profit. The $250,000 home only requires you to buy, fix up, and sell 4 homes at $85,000 profit.

Just try it. with time you can afford anything. It's how businesses are born.

See, when you say that you can't afford something, its' just an excuse to turn off your brain.  You stop thinking about it, and never find a possibility.  Anything is possibly.  You need to exercise the brain muscle, and get it ready for finding business opportunities.  Even if you don't actually want the thing you are looking at, try to figure out a way to afford it.  As with all exercise, it gets easier the more you do it.  With this muscle you can figure your way past any "cash flow" problems that may occur.