If I were interested in making a quick buck, I might be telling you 3 “hot stocks you absolutely must invest in.” I could tell you to buy a product that gives me a commission.
Instead, I’m going to tell you the three things I’ve invested my time, money, & effort into that’s responsible for all of my success.
They might not be what you think of first.
Knowledge
“First you do the best you can. Then when you know better, do better.” -David Hira
Knowledge really is power. Everything I’ve done boils down to having the right information on how to do it.
Or spend years with trial & error to figure it out for myself. Either way, your choices are only as good as the information you use to make them.
In a time where information is freely available online, it’s difficult to sift the golden nuggets from all the useless crap. When you find something valuable, however, there’s nobody who can take it from you.
Whatever treasures you hoard in your mind are yours, and yours forever.
Knowledge is the best return on the investment you can possibly hope for.
Assets
There are things / ideas / strategies / tools that will help you get where you want to go.
Then there’s everything else.
The secret to lasting success is owning what you build. I don’t care how many followers you have on Twitter. I don’t care how many likes you have on Facebook. Any platform you build on can change their rules tomorrow and everything you’ve worked so hard to build can disappear instantly.
Unless you own your platform.
Coaches
The quote about knowing better so you can do better was told to me by one of my favorite coaches & personal mentors. He’s an incredible person with an even more incredible story. His insights, suggestions, and advice come from a lifetime of experience, and every single nugget he shares is pure gold.
When I listen to what he tells me, it saves me years of learning it myself. That’s the power of coaches.
Great advice is worth exactly what you pay for it, too. Coaching ain’t cheap. It’s not easy to put their knowledge into action, either.
But it’s so worth it.
Coaching helps catapult you forward. It instantly establishes momentum. Momentum creates wealth.
Takeaways
- Put in effort to gain things that can’t be taken away
- Quality relationships with quality people are priceless & worth everything you can spend to maintain them
- Knowledge is power (when put into action)