As a businessman or salary earners here are tips on how to stay poor in life. 
1. Spending your money on unnecessary items immediately the money arrives. Trying to prove a point to people by living a standard that is above your pay grade.
2. Live on one source of income. Everyday of our life our responsibilities and challenges keeps piling up accumulating without consideration to our financial capability. The economy and cost of living continue getting worsen. So in order not to be able to beat this piling settle comfortably on a single source of income flow.
3. Become an extremely cheerful giver/lender to friends and family. A wisdom quote I read somewhere said, "if you want to lose your friends and family lend them money". Keeping doing this and you going to be successfully poor.
4.Learn how not to mind your own business, making every events around you your concern even when it doesn't affect you. It's a nice way to make cool enemies. Etc.
I trust you all get the sarcasm as conveyed.
Personally, as someone who has been both in the poverty line and in the comfortably living side of life, One thing that I keep reminding myself of is that you're not gonna be here everyday, so while you're at it, make the most of what you got and make sure that you're leaving the people you love with something just in case. 1. Spending your money on unnecessary items immediately the money arrives. Trying to prove a point to people by living a standard that is above your pay grade.
2. Live on one source of income. Everyday of our life our responsibilities and challenges keeps piling up accumulating without consideration to our financial capability. The economy and cost of living continue getting worsen. So in order not to be able to beat this piling settle comfortably on a single source of income flow.
3. Become an extremely cheerful giver/lender to friends and family. A wisdom quote I read somewhere said, "if you want to lose your friends and family lend them money". Keeping doing this and you going to be successfully poor.
4.Learn how not to mind your own business, making every events around you your concern even when it doesn't affect you. It's a nice way to make cool enemies. Etc.
I trust you all get the sarcasm as conveyed.
Which is why I don't really hate on people who think they deserve to splurge out a little bit every time they feel like they deserve it. Especially breadwinners who never had the chance to really experience how life works when you're earning your own bread and spending it on yourself cause they gotta support their family. That once in a blue-moon massive spend is more than enough to keep them sane while they are not just building themselves but the future of their mom and dad.
I say for the meantime, don't push yourself into thinking that you're late and you're not gonna get anywhere if you keep spending on stuff. As a human you have needs that can only be met by spending and no one's gonna call you out in public for spending on shit anyway so have fun, and once you feel like you've had enough of the fun start learning to be more responsible, it's way easier to discipline yourself when the temptations have already been met rather than fighting against it.