I’m gonna let you in on a secret.
You ready?
Everything has an ROI. (return on investment)
Everything from the thoughts you think, your daily actions, to every minute you spend now will have some sort of effect in your short and long term future.
For example, if you spent a lot of time 6 months ago working out and eating right, I can imagine that paid off in a healthier you today.
But, with things like working out or financial investments, the ROIs are easy to see.
But here’s the thing, many of the things we do don’t have an obvious ROI.
Those negative thoughts about…I dunno…lets say, what a person can achieve investing in land?
Well, the ROI is a disbelief about yourself, or even what this business can do for you.
Which in turn stops a person from going all in.
I know this from personal experience, this is why I stopped investing in 2018.
I was an idiot and I let too many negative thoughts hold be back from greatness.
“Coaching and investing are too expensive” (but I never thought about the ROI I would receive for the rest of my life)
“It’s not a good time, I got this bad thing and that other thing” (but I never realized there is no “right time” and things get easier as I get better)
“I just got too much going on, Ill focus on land later when I magically have more time” (when do I not have too much going on? If I did land, I would have more free time!)
etc. (i had a million excuses…dont judge me!)
You know what the result for me was?
Staying stuck in life, and eventually going broke.
I was also frustrated that everything I wanted in life was never within reach.
I was upset that I could never live the life I said I wanted, but in reality my current comfort zone was more important to me.
My issue is that I expected to see specific tangible returns, like hella money with no effort.
What I didn’t realize is that my excuses, my frustration in life, and the mindset that I had WERE THE ROI!
Here’s the good news, I realized that I could stop investing in the crap I didn’t like and start to invest in myself all over again.
As people, we often go thru pain of something going bad.
the thing is we pay that price of that “bad thing” but we never cash in and collect our ROI from that event!
Once I started to see that my frustration was a sign that I wasn’t focusing on the right things, I had more clarity on how to move forward.
Once I saw that my excuses were all bullshit, I learned the importance of being solutions oriented, and that no issue is unsolvable.
Once I saw how detrimental my comfort zone was, I started to crave experiences to get out of it, so I could level up.
In a nutshell, no matter the outcome, a person never wastes time, it’s that people choose to let that time and experience go to waste.
Hell, even food that’s rotten can be used to compost to grow future food that will be good and healthy
…but how many of us see spoiled food as nothing more than garbage to throw away?
Serious question I invite you to really think about:
How often do you not cash in on experiences because you didn’t get what you expected, and so you didn’t take advantage of what you did get?