Why The Best Investment You Can Make Is In Yourself
At one time or another we have all heard leaders say, “The best investment you can make is in yourself.”
Now, we do believe this to be true. However, over the years we have found that being a good leader requires sharing not just the “what” (investing in yourself), but also the “why” (the reason). When you have a good understanding of “why” you are doing something, it becomes possible to get over any “how” (the action required to accomplish the “what”). This is what lead us diving deeper into the reason why the best investment you can make is in yourself.
Through our research and own experiences at The Life Edge, we have found the reasons investing in yourself is the best investment you can make is:
- It increases your confidence in yourself in a way others can see.
- Your value to the market place increases.
- You become an inspiration to others.
- It helps improve your mental health.
- You discover more about yourself and what you are capable of.
Confidence
As you invest in yourself physically, mentally and financially you will start to become more confident. This is just something that automatically happens as you start the journey of improving yourself. You begin to look in the mirror and see a person who cares about their life and where they are headed. You finally start to respect that person looking back at you and appreciate the hard work they are doing to make positive changes in their life.
With time and repetition, this added confidence leads to you believing in yourself more. Believing that you are a person capable of accomplishing anything you set your mind to. When you have confidence like this you become an unstoppable force as that confidence just keeps building like a snowball rolling down hill.
The really cool part is, others will begin to see this as well. They will ask you, “What changed? Did you switch to a new foundation because you’re glowing?” Or they will comment on how you have more energy and are carrying yourself with more authority. Ryan Serhant speaks about this phenomenon in his book Big Money Energy. The short story is that true confidence radiates in a way that people notice. This creates a ripple effect of positive self esteem and when you feel the momentum it is nearly impossible to stop it.
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Inspiration To Your Family & Friends
As your knowledge grows, you will start to talk with more sophistication and self-assurance. Your family and friends will start to notice the improvements.
Some will be excited and want to grown along side you on your journey. They may start to listen to the same audiobooks, take the same online courses and watch the similar YouTube videos as you. This will benefit their life as they gain more knowledge for themselves all because you showed them that it is possible. That life can be whatever you want if you are willing to put in the hard work.
Mental Health
This is a benefit of self investment that most people don’t talk about. As you work on yourself and your confidence builds, you will begin to talk to yourself in a new positive light.
The negative talk that used to fill your mind with thoughts of inadequacy will fade into the background. Because you learned a new skill or invested in yourself, those old and negative thoughts will be replaced with new positive beliefs. You will talk to yourself as a person who does what they say they are going to do. Whether it be loosing weight, saving money, eating healthy, learning a new skill or starting a business these all create a clear-cut path to healthy self talk.
All this will help you realize that you are a person who honors your commitments to others but most importantly honors your commitments to yourself. This is the benefit of self improvement that aids you in living a happier life. You are no longer caring around the burden of negativity.
Discover
Finally, you will discover who you are.
As you start to learn new skills and gain more confidence, you begin to understand yourself in a new way. All your wants and desires become clear. Sometimes you realize the things you wanted in life were other peoples dreams. Other times you find that you already have what you want and never noticed it before.
You also uncover your true potential. The layers of doubt and negativity are pulled back revealing their true origin. The origin being that you have so much potential you had not yet tapped into. No longer will you go to bed thinking “I could have done more.” You will begin living up to the best version of yourself, constantly pushing to new levels of abundance.
Understanding why the best investment you can make is in yourself is not that complicated if you are willing to stop and think about it. Write it down, journal about it, talk about it out loud, discover what you love and learn more about it. It will help raise your confidence level, make you more valuable, improve your mental health and allow you to know yourself on a deeper level. With this answer being so clear, what is still holding you back?
Cheers
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