• Are You Investing in Yourself?

  • Sep 17 2024
  • Length: 13 mins
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Are You Investing in Yourself?

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  • Investing in yourself isn't always easy. It is a matter of finding the time to make these investments in ourselves and to say, "okay, if I can't go to a cabin for a week, what can I do? When can I do this?" David: Hi, and welcome back. In today's episode, co host Jay McFarlane and I will be discussing investing in yourself. Welcome back, Jay. Jay: Hey David. It's so good to be here. I feel like lately we've been going after things that I really struggle with. We talked about controlling your internal monologue. Now we're talking about investing in yourself. It's really easy for me to invest in other people. That is very easy. But taking time to invest in myself... when I need something, I will go and find it and I'll learn how to do it. But being proactive about it. I'm reactive, just about in every way. David: Interesting. So when you think in terms of investing in yourself, you mean investing what? Time, money? Jay: All of it. you know, investing in myself when it comes to just taking time to learn new things, or I think investing in yourself can be just reading on a regular basis, or instead of watching social media, be listening to productive podcasts, or, taking a walk, those kind of things. We talked in the last podcast, controlling your internal monologue. Those are all things that require proactivity and honestly, I don't know if it's pride or stubbornness or whatever else. I'm like, oh, I'm good. You know, I'm good. David: That's interesting because we are actually on completely opposite ends of the spectrum on this one normally we're agreeing with each other not that we're disagreeing here, but I am at totally the other end of the spectrum. I'm constantly reading stuff. I'm constantly investing in programs and audios and videos and courses. I can't tell you, and I'd be embarrassed if I could tell you, how much I spend on that type of thing. Just because, I don't know if that is like a FOMO element of mine, where I'm afraid I'm going to miss something, but I'm conscious of it to the point where I recognize that you don't want to invest in everything, right? There's looking at investments that are designed to help you with right where you are now. If you need help getting over a particular challenge, that's where I find the investments most worthwhile. And then there are investments that sort of just in case learning. I'm learning this skill just in case. I'm going to learn how to do whatever, something related to social media that may or may not help. Or that sounds like the catchy thing of the day. Because when you're online, you will hear all kinds of people talking about all kinds of different things that are the solution to your problem. And one person is going to tell you that it's Instagram. And another person is going to tell you that it's Facebook ads. And somebody else is going to tell you that it's organic. And somebody else is going to tell you that it's something completely different than those things. Everybody's got a solution. And it reminds me of the old adage that when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail, right? So depending on who you're listening to, who you're paying attention to, you may end up investing in things that are not actually designed to get you from where you are now to where you want to be. Jay: Yeah. And I guess I have to clarify a little bit of what I've said. If it's something I need or want, I'm a dog with a bone. For me it's the difference of, do I learn how to do exactly what I want, or do I go to college and learn all of these broad subject matters, and then focus. I think both are important, and I'm never the broad subject matter guy, right? I mean, Over the course of my lifetime, I've learned how to make video games and released over 100 apps. I got into talk radio. I started several businesses. I have training courses. So, I certainly invest in myself, but unlike you, you're kind of like,
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