INVEST IN YOURSELF

Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Warren Buffett, Elon Musk – one common characteristics that these billionaires share, of course apart from being billionaires, is that the key to the larger than life success lies in having made an investment in themselves early in their lives. After all, investing in yourself is one of the best investments you can make, one with the highest return on investment. But too often, we have failed to make this investment for various reasons. Lack of time or money or interest or belief, the list of reasons can be dauntingly Endless. We are often overwhelmed by the seemingly urgent, the last thing on our minds. However, the success stories of these billionaire entrepreneurs are testament to the idea that making an investment in yourself holds a very real value, which can be recognized as their compound overtime.

Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. Anything that improves your own talents, nobody can tax it or take it from you. They can run up huge defects and the dollar can become worth far less. You can have all kinds of things happen. But if you’ve Got Talent yourself, and you have maximized your talent, you have got a tremendous asset that can return tenfold.

-Warren Buffett

There is a wealth of benefit that can be react once you start investing in yourself consistently. Here are some of those benefits that can positively inspire you to start making that investment right away:

Satisfaction: as you start investing your time, money and effort into personal growth and development, you will be rewarded with a deep sense of accomplishment and contentment. Whether you make that investment in your physical health and fitness or in your creative pursuits, the sense of accomplishment and gratification that follows right after can be worth all the cost and in fact, generate greater returns in the near future.

Confidence: with a greater set of accomplishments, now you will feel a greater degree of confidence about your skills and abilities. And this confidence will directly lead you to a clearer vision of your future and enable you to dream much bigger. Personal growth and development can be the perfect solution for moving past and crashing down all the insecurities and anxieties that often seem to debilitate us.

Stability: when you invest in your personal growth and development – whether it’s learning something completely from scratch, or refining and building upon your existing set of skills, you will be able to help to add a lot more stability to your career as well as life.

Connections: investing in yourself can open the opportunity to build and strengthen new connections. Deepening the bonds of trust and empathy in your personal relationship and in the larger community can help others as well as yourself.

Six ways to invest in yourself

1. Physical health and fitness

> Get a gym membership

> Eat healthy and nutritious food

> Build good bedtime habits

> Go for yearly medical visits

> Relationships and community

> Catch up with your friends

> Volunteer for A cause

> Spend quality time with your loved ones

2. Education knowledge and skill set

> Get additional certifications

> Read books

> Learn to apply your knowledge

> Get comfortable with technology

3. Emotional well being and mental health

> Focus on the present

> Be aware of your emotional needs

> Practice meditation

> Keeper general

4. Money and finances

> Invest wisely

> Resist impulsive purchases

> Keep track of your bills

> Save an emergency fund

5. Career and job

> Find a mentor

> seek opportunities that challenge you

> Leverage the power of LinkedIn

> Stay Updated

6. The persistency of who am I

> The only constant is change. You will you will change. Accept it.

> Old parts needs to be changed if you wish to continue your voyage. If you want to reach your destination, that is goals, you have to grow and evolve.

> You have to install new parts to continue.

You want to use fake plastic parts which will fall apart in a strong or tough metal which will lead you through it.

You want to imbibe a strong value system or fake superficial qualities.

Your choice will determine your destination.

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