Invest in Yourself | No Knockdown in Lockdown
Saravanaguru (Guru) Kumaraguru
Head of Compliance & Security at Intergy | AISA Member | ISO 27001 & 9001 Lead Implementer | PMP | Agile | Cloud | DevSecOps | Six Sigma Black Belt | ITIL
A very famous investor Warren Buffet said, “The best investment you can make is in yourself.” And, this quote holds an immense truth in it. If we don’t invest in ourselves then who will? We are the most valuable asset that we can invest in because only we can create our own success. An investment made in others will die off with time, but investment in us is going to stay forever.
But all too often, this investment holds the lowest priority in our life. Every person thinks to invest in himself/herself, but when remains a question. They even look for somebody that can fulfill their requirement, which is not right.
Why to Invest in Yourself?
To attain massive success in your life, you need to create it on your own. Invest your energy, efforts, time, knowledge and resources in you which will get your value back until you die.
This investment will make your life productive and help you in achieving a better quality of life. Self-sabotaging your life because of lack of efforts takes you nowhere but in disparity.
There is an endless number of ways that can be opted for a rewarding life. When you’re willing to say yes and ready to take that leap of faith and decide to invest, the universe will stand tandemly by you to reward you with a fruitful and happy life.
How to do?
The utmost step towards investment is placing a priority in both personal and professional growth. The crux of the matter is that efforts you’re implying will play a significant role in determining the quality of life.
Before everything, what is critical is to honor your intuition. Your gut is the strongest power in you on which you should trust and honor the message it's blinking. Valuing your intuition doesn’t let the words, thoughts, statements or feelings of somebody to influence your decision which is true empowerment.
You can even choose to work on your Bucket List, a list of everything that you desire to achieve. This bucket list will keep you motivated throughout your life and will offer you something to work hard for. This list might go on, but you must check out to check in another thing.
Take Small Steps
Life is an endless pursuit for happiness, and sometimes you hang up so much in your life and job that you forget to live for yourself. This is the time now (yes you read it right, the lockdown period) where you must initiate a small step towards you and start investing in yourself. Investment in yourself doesn’t make you lose anything but helps you in gaining that enables you to perform more, grow more and live more.
By investing in yourself, you are boosting your confidence which holds great value as you will have the courage to say something and people will listen. The more you value yourself, the more you become confident to share it with others.
So, how do you want to invest in yourself?
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4 年What would nice is to invest 1 hour per day on personal health as an entire family
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4 年Well Said Guru.. most of us look at the break even for any investments. It’s right time for everyone to think on invest in yourself for a quality of life.