Prioritize Self Investment in 2017.

Investing in your personal growth may be the most profitable investment you ever make. The most certain way to achieve a better quality life, success, productivity, and satisfaction is to place priority on investing in both personal and professional growth. The effort you put into consistently investing in yourself plays a major role in determining the quality of your business and life generally now and in years to come.

Here are ways you can invest in yourself, to ensure that you keep moving forward and growing as a person and a business owner without spending so much;

• Develop Your Skill 

By “Developing your skills”,I do not mean investing in actual education (as in conventional schooling), though that’s surely an option, and perhaps a necessary one depending on your career field. I mean investing in your knowledge and skills. This isn’t limited to that area and can take different forms.

• Engage in hands-on and practical adventures

There are a lot of skill investment areas readily available in your locality waiting for you to notice and exploit them.

• Advance Education

Extra classes, important certifications and higher degrees are all helpful investments.

• Expand your knowledge

There are a lot of information readily available on almost all subjects. It is important that you make reading a habit, read books, articles, subscribe to publications, read expert blogs or anything related to your talent or skill. Stay abreast of the latest trends or advancements, it keeps you generally informed.

• Utilize Available training's. 

Enroll in workshops, attend conferences or participate in webinars as much as you can, they go a long way in improving one’s self.

• Explore Your Creative Side

There is a high level of creativity within most of us that has never been revealed or certainly hasn’t been used to its highest potential. Creativity in whatever form we may have it, helps us grow personally and professionally. It is important to note that creativity has a lot of faces and is not only limited to being a graphic designer or a painter, it’s also about trying new things.

You may decide to learn a new language by taking a class or using a language training software.

You may decide to write something, a book, a short story or a poem.

You may decide to explore the outside world, learn something totally outside your field.

Choose some form of activity that you have never tried, haven’t practiced in years, or have never explored fully.

• Treat Yourself

Do not be scared to spend money, funds should be put in place to allow you recognize milestones and celebrate your progress. Use such funds to take a weekend trip (and a quick break from your shop), probably have a nice dinner with a friend or your significant other or do something out of the usual norm.
I remember my third visit to Lagos. One sunny morning,I was strolling through Marina and somehow I managed to notice bookstores on both sides of the boulevard amidst the tall buildings and subconsciously I decided to visit one of them. I was fascinated by the plethora of books and their titles. This was my first time to visit such place compared to my antecedents,so I ended up buying four books,namely;

1. HOW TO STOP WORRYING by Dale Carnegie.
2. WHY  A STUDENTS WORK FOR C STUDENTS by Robert Kiyosaki.
3. MASTERY by Robert Greene.
4. BEFORE YOU DO by T.D Jakes.

Overall, investing in yourself truly makes a difference in your life and your ability to thrive and perform your best. The extent to which you invest in yourself shapes the way you interact with the outside world. Your future is largely determined by your willingness to invest in yourself now.

HAPPY 2017'.....ENDEAVOR TO BE THE BEST.