If your life, your work, your growth, and your future matter, you have to be willing to invest in them — your time, your effort, and yes, even your money. What can you do today to invest in yourself?
It’s easier to spend money and energy on other people than on ourselves. It’s easier to spend money and energy on maintaining life and work (groceries, computer repair) than on enhancing life and work (i.e., organic groceries, or that new light-weight laptop that would change everything).
Today, take the leap: what can do you in the enhancement category? Looks at the categories of your life: spiritual, health, family, home, professional life, creativity and recreation, dreams and visions. Write down what you’ve done lately to enhance one or more of these. In my life, I can point to the home area and say that I’m looking for a painter for the living room and an electrician to get rid of the creepy fluorescents in the bathroom and kitchen; and in the professional area, I’ve hired a business consultant to help me launch my holistic health coaching practice, and I’m having my website remastered to make it interactive and far more viable than it is now.
After you’ve written what you’ve done already (and don’t worry if you don’t have a lot to say), write down what you can realistically do in the next 90 days to enhance each of the 7 categories. Your list might look like:
Spiritual – get an intro session with a spiritual-life coach
Health – get a buddy to go to the gym with
Family –make one night a week family night
Home – read feng shui book (try Collins’ The Western Guide to Feng Shui)
Professional life – take a free tech class at the Mac store
Creativity & recreation – do something fun every single week between now and Christmas
Dreams & visions — make a treasure map or vision board
It’s your life, so you’ll know what to do with it. Just be willing to make the investment. It’ll pay ya back handsomely.
“Invest in Yourself” photo credit: FPRA
Read more about Victoria Moran — her books, coaching services, motivational speaking, and TV appearances — on her website, www.victoriamoran.com
posted November 3, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Victoria,
I am a new follower of yours. I definitely have short changed myself in the “investment” part of my life personally.
I am learning a lot from your books.
Thank you for caring and sharing,
Shelley Reid Salmons
Essentials Design Group, LLC
posted November 5, 2009 at 1:00 am
Just found this great site with TONS of free holistic article and videos. Just thought I would pass it on! http://www.RoseCole.com
posted November 5, 2009 at 7:29 am
Even when I had a husband and four kids,I had to do what what was important to me. Who has to buy socks and under wear every year? Treat your self on your birthday to something special. Concentrating on the self is important too. You can be distracted and forget what you had to do. Some of us do lose the train of thought some of the time.
posted November 5, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Hi, Shelley — Thanks for introducing yourself. I’m humbly honored that you’re enjoying my books and that they’re part of your “enhancement.” Best wishes, Victoria
posted November 6, 2009 at 2:58 am
Great article about low thyroid, and being tired all the time! Just thought I would pass it on. http://www.rosecole.com/articles/balance-hormones/thyroid.html?sig=33
posted November 7, 2009 at 3:54 am
Great article, I have been following he series and the tips are awesome. Thanks for the sharing the information.
posted November 7, 2009 at 12:49 pm
I seem to be missing Day 24. Can you help me find it?