Quotes
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” — Benjamin Franklin.
“If you only read the books everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” —Anonymous.
“I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.” — Malcolm X.
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." ― Oscar Wilde
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ― Mae West
"Mindset first, Skillset second" — Teronie J. Donaldson (yep, that's me — cool, right?)
Notes/Observation
Take a walk.
Walks are incredibly beneficial as they get you out of your head and into your physicality and surroundings.
Walking stills the mind so that you connect with creative insight effortlessly. When I’m stuck or low, I try to go for a walk.
Studies Shows
Short walks solve 54% of your problems.
Long walks solve 89% of your problems.
Articles
A Fixed Income Is a Sucker Bet by Steve Pavlina
1,000 True Fans by Kevin Kelly
Watched
Book of the Week
This was a great book. This book was authentic and significant because it gave insight into his background, antics, and successes.
50 Cent Opens Up in Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter.
It’s a level of self-awareness and honesty that many hip-hop artists wouldn’t show in public. 50 even opens up about his damaged relationship with his first son and his son’s mother. A topic that can’t have been easy to write about.
Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter is centered around 9 themes, each chapter based on one of these themes. These are Finding Fearlessness, Heart of a Hustler, Constructing Your Crew, Knowing Your Value, Evolve or Die, Power of Perception If We Can’t Be Friends, Learning From Your Ls, and The Entitlement Trap.
Each chapter gives many examples so that the lesson behind the themes is easy to digest. In some cases, 50 even breaks down stories from other entrepreneurs, including Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Enzo Ferrari, and Soichiro Honda.
This book completes From Pieces to Weight by showing the complete evolution of Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson.
Strategy
In Tools of Titans, Tony Robbins was quoted saying the following:
“Investing in yourself is the most important investment you’ll ever make in your life. No financial investment will ever match it because if you develop more skill, ability, insight, and capacity, that will provide economic freedom.”
Investing in your skills, knowledge, and network has the highest ROI.
Simply put, invest in yourself.
Question
How have you invested in yourself today?
Or when will you invest in yourself?