You may have heard it said that you should invest in yourself. Typically, it is understood to mean spending time and money on yourself to upgrade your professional skills and to make yourself more adaptable for the working world. That wouldn’t be wrong, but what is sometimes overlooked is that it also means you need to invest in yourself for your own personal growth and your own happiness!
Investing in your own personal development is always a good idea. It can help make you more marketable and update your skills to ensure you are more relevant for the changing work world; but this isn’t all you should invest in yourself for.
Investing in yourself includes
- Taking the time and effort to develop your own personal interests that you may have given up on but have always had a knack and passion for.
- Taking the time and effort to deal with your thoughts and feelings, stress and anxieties.
- Putting in the time to do something you like rather than doing it because you need to for any practical reason.
- It could mean improving your physical and well as mental health.
- It could also mean putting effort to be a better person in some area of your life that you feel you need improvement on.
- It could mean going back to school to learn something that interests you or is compelling for you.
It may seem obvious but in practice it can be much harder to achieve. Time will always be an issue. Between your work commitments, sleep, and other responsibilities, you may find yourself too stretched to consider putting anything else on your plate. Money is usually a hurdle to be overcome as well. You can always rationalise spending that on something else you want or need, and you may not even have enough to allocate.
Justifying it to yourself can often be difficult, but how much of your current life is already spent helping people around you?
If you can find the time and effort to help others, you can justify the need to help yourself. You also have hopes, dreams, and desires that may be unaddressed. At the end of the day, you want to be at your best. You want to feel and know that you’re giving your all and other people are getting the best from you. You should also want what is best for yourself as well. Your happiness is waiting for you! Find out how to take the next steps forward.
Join us at College of Allied Educators to learn more about yourself, what motivates you, and how you can find happiness, meaning, and success in work, love, and life.
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