What do you invest your time in? What is the best investment you can make? I read this quote the other day from Warren Buffet:
"The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people…… Just imagine you’re 16 and I was going to give you a car of your choice today, any car you wanted to pick. But there was one catch. It was the only car you were able to have for the rest of your life. You had to make it last. So how would you treat it?
Well, of course you’d read the owners’ manual about five times before you turn the key in the ignition. You would keep it garaged; any little rust would get taken care of immediately; you’d change the oil twice as often as you were supposed to - because you would know it had to last a lifetime….
Then I tell the students you get one body and one mind. And it’s going to have to last you a lifetime so you’d better treat it the same way. You’d better start doing it right now because it doesn’t do any good if you start working on it when you are 50 or 60 and the little speck of rust has turned into something big… The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be."
Why don’t we spend more time preparing for what we want to do? Why don’t we surround ourselves with people who encourage and challenge us? Take the time to invest in your passion each day and that is the best investment you will make.
“If a person will spend one hour a day on the same subject for five years, that person will be an expert on that subject” - Earl Nightingale
Charles Tremendous Jones believes that:
“The only difference between who you are today and the person you will be in five years will come from the books you read and the people you associate with”
Your returns won’t be immediate but long term rewards are what you are trying to do when you invest anyway right?
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