Going through the day to day routines of life, our children, our significant other, our job, and even our dog always seem to come first. But it’s important to remember our well-being, our inner and outer self is just as important and should be our priority, in order that we could be the very best version of ourselves. To invest in yourself is something that can be accomplished in many different ways, and the investment doesn’t always have to require money, but it will always require time. And although our time may sometimes seem to be “free”, consider time to be a precious commodity and our most valuable resource. So, what better way to use our most precious commodity than to use it to invest in ourselves! The investments we make in ourselves, whether it be time and/or money will not only be a benefit to us, but what we’ll find is that it will also benefit other parts of our lives as well, like our children, our significant other, our job, etc., because as we improve ourselves, it will inevitably affect other aspects of our lives.

This is What it Means to Invest in Yourself

Even though investing in yourself is requires spending time and/or money to improve yourself, there are various areas and various reasons to invest in yourself. One area you might want to work on or improve, for example may be physical, to have more energy or stay active with your children. You may want to lose weight, have more muscle tone or just eat healthier.

Whatever the area or reason is that you want to improve will require you to invest the time and/or money necessary to learn what to do and how to do it, through research or hiring a personal trainer or nutritionist. Then of course there’s the actual doing, the act of applying those things that you researched and learned or executing the instructions and programs of the experts you hired.

“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

All of that…learning and applying… is the investment you make in yourself. If you’re looking to improve your finances, you invest in buying books, taking an accounting class, attend a seminar or hire a financial planner. You would study, learn and apply your new knowledge to improve your situation. That formula is what achieves personal growth and allows change to take place.

The time and money spent is an investment in yourself! Pursuing higher education to gain specialized knowledge or to gain a higher position within a company is an investment in yourself. These are just a few examples of how taking time and/or money to invest in yourself can improve who and where you are. What you want to improve may change, but how to do it stays the same.

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