how to invest in yourself stay tuned I
was talking to a few friends of mine who they're not really in NLP
they've taken some of my trainings and I've shown them some things and but
they're not like regular practitioners but they're in the personal development
and I was talking to both of them at different times and I realized that they
weren't really pursuing what they wanted they weren't really going after the
things that they told me that they were interested in that they had been going
after and they weren't really doing anything to improve themselves they were
kind of in a slump or in a funk and that really depressed just kind of in a funk
and it struck me suddenly that how much we invest in distraction because when
you're in that place you don't really feel good
and you're not addressing something obviously your potential is drawn toward
learning and growing that's natural like you want to get
better you want to grow you want to learn sometimes we don't know how
sometimes we're suffering from some sort of disappointment
so we distract ourselves we invest money in having an expensive coffee every day
we invest a lot of time in entertainment and I'm not saying that
all entertainment is bad we definitely need to include leisure time
entertainment things that we we can take a break from thinking while we're doing
but we engage in this a lot to the point where we often don't really know we
don't realize how much we're engaging in it I'll give a personal example I
really get into politics it's like I don't get into sports that much or like
watching sports but I to me politics is like sports there's drama there's
winning there's losing and I get to a point with it just recently where I was
watching I was consuming so much news that I realized that I wasn't really
getting news but the whole time I was telling myself that I'm informing myself
I'm getting knowledge like if I'm reading an article I'm I'm reading so
reading is good for me and I'm informing myself about what's going on around the
world but that's not what news is anymore
it's hard to distill actual news from the entertainment side of news the news
media wants to make you angry they want to create drama and sensationalism and
that's what pulls you in and that's what keeps you watching and it's a huge
distraction while all the while you're telling yourself this is good for you
it's kind of like eating fast food your body thinks it's being nourished but
actually it's not but it's being fooled into thinking that that's what consuming
most news today is and there's real news out there and it's hard to find but and
we should inform ourselves I'm not saying we shouldn't do that but how much
are you distracting yourself how much are you investing your energy and things
that do not help you do not improve your life do not make you grow you don't
learn anything from take a good hard look at that the two excuses I heard
most when I was doing regular cells like in an office where I was selling all the
time the two biggest excuses for not buying something was it's too expensive
or too much time it takes I don't have the time so that's the main excuse for
anything and what I always found is that if I got an understanding of these
people's lives if I'd ask them questions specific questions they always have a
time they always had the money they always had lots of money tied up and
things that were completely unnecessary and not only that wasn't even helping
them and when you're drinking a coffee a day at a Starbucks or something like
that how much are you really appreciating and enjoying the coffee
it's probably just habit by that time so you're not really enjoying it you're not
really appreciating it take a look at your day take a look at your life how
much money are you spending on things that don't really matter you don't
really appreciate they don't add anything to your life and how much time
or do you spend investing in distractions investing in things that
you're telling yourself is helping you but it's really not be very honest with
yourself think you'll be surprised if you're really honest with yourself
you'll probably discover that you could free up a lot of time and a lot of money
so what do you do with the time and the money invest it in yourself don't invest
it in someone else's dream don't invest it in making more money for a coffee
company don't invest it in ratings for the news channel that all they do is
sensationalize the news and give you very little information when you free up
that time and you free up that money you don't necessarily have to invest it in
something that's like directly personal development
it could be you've always wanted to learn how to do ballroom dancing hey
there's your time there's your money go do it maybe you always want to learn a
language now that you have an hour more a day or you have a little extra money
go do that when you look at all the things that you're distracting yourself
with what kind of life does that create no wonder so many people feel depressed
then wonder for so many people life feels meaningless and purposeless
because they're so scattered so distracted they're investing their
energy and their time and their focus in so many different directions and very
few of them are really adding anything substantial to their lives think about
how much time you spend on not investing in yourself if you have
a job we all need to work we all need to make money but think about that your
your job is probably and the true investment of your job is investing in
your boss's dream or the corporation's mission or vision now if that aligns
with who you are and you enjoy the work great it's adding something to your life
but if you're working a job and you're not enjoying it and you're really just
making someone else's dream come true you've got work to do it's time to get
focused on what it is you want to do and it doesn't mean you have to start a
business you can doesn't mean you have to but think about how much time you're
spending investing in someone else's dream and not yours you're investing
time and energy and someone else are in something else that is not what you not
what you really want and it's not getting you any closer to where you want
to be this can be hard for a lot of people to get really clear about because
the clearer you get about it the more you realize your life does not look like
what you want it to be so what do we do what do most of us do
distract distract distract go out buy go buy something or go and watch stupid
YouTube videos and I do those things too and I catch myself and sometimes I a lot
certain amounts of money or time for me to do those things because like I said
you need to do some things that are meaningless and stupid and you need
leisure time you need to relax need to do fun stuff but be very clear
about what's fun what's leisure what's doing something
for nothing or something that's meaningless and what is doing something
to get you where you want to be to invest in yourself so free up that time
free up that money and start investing in yourself and make it your goal to do
this more and more each year and you will get to a point where you're able to
merge everything it is that you want to do and all of it becomes an investment
in you so spending quality time with my kids it's an investment in my kids but
it's also an investment in me because I get to do that more I get to do for a
living what I love doing that's an investment in me I wasn't always that
way I've worked jobs that I've hated I've
had a business that I hated but now I make what I do to invest in myself make
money for me I might exercise what I do for exercise
is something that I really enjoy I don't like running so I don't run for exercise
yoga I like surfing I like jiu-jitsu so think about the next ten years ten years
is going to go by you can't stop it you can't slow it down it's going to pass so
where do you want to be in those ten years if you distract yourself if you
keep distracting yourself from investing in yourself from dealing with you
dealing with who you are I assure you you're not gonna be where you want to be
in ten years but if you start now you don't have to go crazy you don't have to
pull the plug on everything all at once you can do it in increments you can do
it in steps little by little little by little adds up a ton over ten years
little by little ten years from now after a little each day of making
changes is exponential to think about where you want to be in ten years get
started now it started pulling the plug on distractions and start moving those
resources that time that focus that energy into investing in yourself check
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