No this isn’t about your 401k or the stock market. This is about something far more important to invest in – yourself.
No matter if you are in sales, teaching, programming, marketing, design, janitorial, whatever – you should be doing everything in your power to learn more about your field and how to be a better whatever.
Go to seminars, buy (and actually read) books, listen to podcasts, go to training classes. They are investments in your career. Yes they are going to take time and money to do. Some of them a large amount of both. But if you spend $1000 on a training, and it helps you close more sales – will it pay off? If you buy a new book and you learn something that helps you find a client – will it pay off?
If you aren’t investing your time and money into yourself, what does that say about your faith in your self?
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Good post.
These things that pull me away from the task can be hard for me to rationalize sometimes. But any time that I do, I’m totally glad i did.
Listen to this guy, he knows his crap.