What do I mean by investing in yourself?
Learning how to maximize the enormous potential that lies in your mind and body.
This includes learning how to set goals, how to manage your time, how to remove fear and doubt, how to adjust your thinking, create new habits, squash bad habits, how to take care of your health, how to focus, etc.
By taking the time to do these things, your return on investment will be exponential!
Let’s look at a few ways to invest in your most valuable asset – yourself.
A very simple example of investing in yourself is learning how to read. You may take that for granted, but keep in mind that a large portion of the population cannot read.
By learning how to read, you are able to gain information from books, magazines, and the Internet; resources that you could not have tapped into had you not invested in yourself.
You see, when you invest in yourself, a thousand other doors open.
Imagine if you invest in yourself daily! You will basically be compounding all the interest you earn daily and your return will be priceless. A million other doors will begin to open.
You see, our brains and bodies are so well designed and have unbounded potential. All we need is a manual to unleash it.
By investing in yourself, you can make it happen, make anything happen. Whatever your dreams, goals, or aspirations may be, you WILL make it happen.
Listed here are 9 self-improvement challenges for you to take on.
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1. Discover your Strengths
What are you doing when you are at your best?
This question is deceptively simple but incredibly powerful. The most successful people in the world have discovered the things they are best at and build their working lives around those strengths.
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2. Do a time diary.
How do you (really) spend your time?
For one day, write down what you want to accomplish. At the end of the day compare your goals with what actually happened.
This is an amazingly revealing exercise because it shows you how much time you waste on random, useless activities. How much time do you spend checking email? How much time on Facebook? How much time endlessly browsing the news, feeling productive but not actually accomplishing anything?
As an exercise, see if you can identify the 20% of your time that produced 80% of your results. What can you do to have more highly productive time like this?
Set your daily schedule and learn to manage it.
3. Set Weekly Goals and Review Progress
What is your #1 goal this week?
This personal investment strategy is similar to time management, but it lasts for an entire week. Oftentimes, we get so caught up in the day to day rush that we fail to step back and look at the things that are most critical.
This week, fight back against the chaos by setting one main goal that you want to have accomplished in seven days. You can also pick two secondary goals if you’re feeling ambitions, but no more than that.
Look back on how you did at the end of the week. Did setting goals help you work more purposefully and effectively? If you had done nothing but work on your three main goals, what would have happened?
4. Get a Mentor
This is a harder challenge, but the benefits are worth it.
You need to find a mentor.
Make a list of everyone you know who has a lot of experience in your line of business. If you don’t know anyone who meets this criterion, broaden the search to people you know who were very successful in another field or with whom you particularly resonate.
Then, rank order your list of potential mentors by preference and start contacting them! Try to set up a regular meeting time and overarching goals for the relationship when you first get together. I’d also recommend establishing a task to work on in between each of your meetings, so you can get feedback and support from your mentor.
Mentoring relationships are a powerful source of knowledge, inspiration and connections – don’t miss out!
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5. Read a Great Book
Great books are like prepackaged boxes of ideas, painstakingly put together by a brilliant author for you to assimilate.
Books transformed the way you thought about business. Reading these books is like hiring a consultant.
6. Start a Habit
What is one thing you wish you did every day?
Here are some ideas:
•Write a blog post
•Learn something
•Exercise
•Reach out to an influencer
•Brainstorm ideas
Either take one of the above ideas or come up with your own. You’re about to make the chosen activity into a habit that you perform each and every day, using one simple truth.
7. Build Your Personal Brand
What does your online presence look like? What happens when someone Google’s your name?
Challenge: Create an “Infographic Resume.”
An infographic resume is a small, visually appealing webpage that provides your bio, contact information, accomplishments and skills.
Next time you apply for a job or need to introduce yourself to someone online, just direct them to your resume page (that wasn’t so hard!).
8. Be Thankful
Being thankful is surprisingly powerful.
Taking five minutes each day to list three things you’re thankful for trains your mind to look for the positive. Amazingly, maintaining a positive mindset makes you more productive and effective in your work (as well as happier in general!).
9. Find Your Why
Purpose is a powerful thing. It gets you up in the morning and keeps you awake at night. Anyone who accomplished anything great was driven by a strong, deeply-held belief of what is wrong with the world and how it can be made right.
What is your purpose? Why do you work?
Take an hour today to sit quietly by yourself and reflect on what you care about most deeply. What types of “bigger than yourself” activities really get you fired up or make you feel most fulfilled?
Don’t skip this challenge. The benefits of knowing your purpose will last a lifetime.
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