The world’s most famous investor, Warren Buffet “the sage of Omaha”, was recently asked after 70 years of investing what his best investment advice would be.
Would it be investing in a pension? A long term bond, a stock market tracker?
He replied that “the single best investment you can make is in YOURSELF”.
Start by becoming a life-long learner, it’s often said the most successful people are the ones with the biggest libraries. Nowadays you can study in “traffic university, meaning you listen to a book in the car, when you walk the dog anywhere, so that idle time is made best use of.
You can often read/listen to a book in a week this way. I can’t read more than a page, it’s the only way I can do it is through listening.Time is your greatest resource, make the most of it.
What about your investment in your health? Do you have little or a lot of energy? If you don’t have much energy, how are you going to have the stamina and endurance to achieve great things every day?
If you commit to exercising and eating healthier, building up slowly but showing up regular, you will soon get meaningful results if you stick at it. A good coach will make you accountable, and take you to places you may not have thought possible.
What’s your environment like? Do you hang out with energy vampires (people who suck the life out of you), or do you associate with people who will lift you every day, who will encourage you to try new things and become more?
That’s the whole point, you have to BECOME more if you want more in life. Your health is the absolute cornerstone of all of this, and you’d be nothing without it.
I have trained many people with a lot of money and many with poor health to start, but each and every one of them told me they wished they looked after themselves better when they were younger, and they would trade all their money for good health if they could rewind the clock again. Don’t live life with any regrets.
However much you invest in yourself in terms of health, learning new skills and making sure you are in the right environment, you will get back a thousand times over.
