The best investment is to invest in yourself. This sentence, like "chicken blood", has become the source of strength for many young people at present, and also serves as a reason to spend money on themselves.
For example, I used to be reluctant to buy big-name bags, but now I have to carry an overdraft credit card and invest in myself. I couldn't make up my mind before cutting my double eyelids. Now I have to have surgery, invest in myself, and don't tell my family to collect money. I used to hesitate whether to buy BMW or economical Nissan with a loan. Now I want to drive my BMW home and get a monthly loan of 5,000 yuan. As for the pressure, I have to bear it hard! Invest in yourself. No, no, honey. You think too materialistically about "investing in yourself", which is by no means the same as "willing to spend money on yourself"!
So, what is the correct way to open "invest in yourself"? Based on the successful experience of nearly 20 elites in various industries, the following seven ways are summarized. Yes, it seems that it has nothing to do with money.
Bad habits, like a load that hinders your running, the more you have, the more it will affect your progress. For example, if you are used to staying up late, staying up late for a long time will not only drag down your health, but also greatly reduce your work efficiency during the day. For another example, you are used to working eight hours and spending a lot of time on gossip or games. Over time, you have no other skills except daily repetitive work, and your competitiveness in the workplace is of course greatly reduced. For another example, you are used to overdrawing every month, and you always feel that there will always be a credit card overdraft when something happens. As we all know, you live in a capital chain that may break at any time, and the future is unpredictable.
So, when you think it's time to invest in yourself, you might as well start by giving up a bad habit. You can make an "abandonment plan" for your current bad habits, take 2 1 day as a cycle, and stick to the good habits of three cycles, and you will see a healthier and more positive self.
Investing in yourself doesn't necessarily mean spending a lot of money. You can set the goal of phased promotion, carry out continuous "deliberate training", intensively cultivate in your own industry and field, and strive to become a professional elite. It doesn't cost a lot of training fees. You can communicate with your peers through professional forums such as WeChat group, and absorb and digest related books in a targeted manner.
In addition to the promotion of the field, improving personal accomplishment is also a necessary option for you to invest in your own work, such as cultivating a quality hobby for one year. The so-called high-quality hobbies refer to activities that can help improve personal cultivation and temperament, including reading, fitness, writing, piano and so on. In short, a person's temperament is emitted from the inside out and must be cut from internal strength.
When we are talking about strengthening skills, don't forget that the improvement of emotional intelligence is equally important. Let me give you an example. A boss who started his second business told me his experience. He thought he could be completely independent in the field of dentistry and chose to open a clinic. Unexpectedly, because of his poor emotional intelligence, the price of material suppliers could not be suppressed, and the publicity of the clinic was also deadlocked. Therefore, the first year of operation ended in a loss. Am I not suitable for starting a business? After learning from a painful experience, he later found that his low emotional intelligence led to bad business.
Yes, even if your major is excellent, strangers must deal with you first without knowing you. At this time, high emotional intelligence will play a vital role. Maybe a few words can make a friend and blend into a circle, laying the groundwork for the next cooperation opportunities.
In this era of quick success and instant benefit, everyone wants to become famous overnight and get rich instantly, and leverage financial freedom with the least effort. Therefore, when you hear that someone around you has bought a house to make money, got promoted in the workplace, married into a rich family, or spent three days in a circle of friends with all kinds of food and travel photos, your heart will suddenly be out of balance: Why is ta almost like me before, but now it is so much better than me?
In fact, in the process of your continuous investment in improving yourself, don't compare with people around you or even big coffee in the industry. Your coordinate system will always be yourself. Wang Shi once said that life is like climbing a mountain. Every small step, life has a new height. Isn't it the happiest thing to see yourself making progress every day? In this world, whether a person is happy or not can only be grasped by himself, so please do your best and focus on improving yourself. What's more, countless industry opinion leaders are telling the truth. Ten thousand hours of hard work can turn a newcomer in a field into an elite. All day long, they just want to eat a fat man, and in the end, they just dream or stand still.
For many college students in non-financial or related fields, as long as their majors are solid, as for economics, it is another field that has nothing to do with them. Honey, if you really think so, you are wrong. Because the economy is the most inseparable part of our daily life, and financial management is also related to everyone's life cycle.
Therefore, it is very important to learn some necessary economic common sense and financial management knowledge in the process of investing in yourself. Just like the financial fraud and Ponzi scheme in the investment process that can be seen everywhere around us, anyone who knows something about economics can quickly see through it, thus protecting the safety of funds.
For another example, you have gained more open source opportunities through continuous investment in yourself. How should you manage these incomes? Put all your money in the bank regularly? Put it all in the balance treasure? No! Clever, you should know how to make the money you earn continue to grow through compound interest, instead of dealing with it in a single way. For example, you can use some of them to make fixed investment in funds, buy stable wealth management products of banks, or short-term and medium-term products of well-known P2P platforms, and so on. In short, just like you have to eat and drink water every day, financial management is also a necessity. Instead of aimlessly brushing the WeChat circle of friends, it is better to accumulate more financial skills.
When it comes to investing in yourself, many people feel that only by spending money on skin care products, big brands and even cosmetic surgery can they get the most immediate results. As everyone knows, this so-called "investing in yourself" not only leads people astray, but also develops the bad habit of unrestrained consumption.
In fact, in the eyes of many elites in the workplace, it is a good thing to improve personal quality within the scope of ability, but it must be measured. For example, you can buy a few Taobao explosions less, and use this money to buy a brand clothing with higher grade and texture. You can buy fewer bottles of cheap water emulsion skin care products and concentrate on buying a bottle of Clarins, Clinique or Estee Lauder. Really, a good brand will always be expensive on the premise that it suits your skin characteristics, and the improvement of your skin will explain the problem.
While skin care collocation enhances face value, don't forget that people who know how to keep in good health will always win a big step in their inner physique. For example, you often eat junk food, and your schedule is often reversed. No matter how good cosmetics and clothes are, they can't cover up that gaunt and tired face for a long time. Yes, the spirit and skin quality will greatly reduce your overall temperament, and then drag down your face value. Therefore, invest in yourself, including cherishing and protecting your body when you are young, because your soul will stay in this body for a long time.
A person who truly knows how to invest in himself must also be a person who can use his time reasonably. They will control the time of each day in a planned way, whether it is working day or rest day, and they know how to use time to create value.
Among many elites in the workplace, there is such a gender, and that is "optimizing social interaction". What do you mean? To put it bluntly, it is to selectively participate in social activities or parties and leave time for more valuable things. If you look closely, you will find that most people who have nothing to do for three days are people who have no goals to fool around with. The so-called "people are divided into groups" is just a kind of people who often get together and have the same personality. Among them, without exception, it will be gradually assimilated. It can be seen how important it is for self-growth to optimize social circles and constantly meet people who are better than themselves.