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an investment in yourself pays the best
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dividends but how many people really
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understand how to do that well that's
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exactly why we made this video to help
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you out this is our own list of clear
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ways to invest in yourself if you want
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to really change your life for the
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better welcome to alux the place where
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future billionaires come to get
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inspired all right starting off at
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number one read for growth honestly the
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most accessible thing to do for
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long-term growth and investment in
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yourself is to learn how to read for
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growth people often don't read books
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these days because their teachers force
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them to read boring books and they got
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graded on them there's now an
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association between reading and homework
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and truth be told we all dreaded having
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to do the homework right schools
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actually made you hate the most valuable
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self-investment tool out there so the
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best strategy to pick up a reading habit
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is to read what you love until you love
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to read reading is and always will be a
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superior form of personal growth you can
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watch a thousand Tik toks about a topic
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and it'll never come close to reading a
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good book number two talk to people find
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a
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mentor talk to people okay a lot of
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people from different backgrounds and
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ideologies the more you expose yourself
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to different types of thinking the more
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you get to understand the world around
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you more often than not people live in
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what we call ideological bubbles you go
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out with the people who are very similar
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to you they live near you they consume
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the same content you do they think the
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same way you do they vote the same way
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you do basically creating an echo
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chamber where your ideas get redirected
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right back at you the problem is that
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growth happens only when you expose
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yourself to New Concepts growth happens
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when you either assimilate Newfound
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knowledge or the old knowledge gets
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replaced by better stuff never be
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arrogant enough to think you know
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everything okay in your quest to talk to
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interesting people some will become
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guiding lights for your future pick one
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of them to become your Mentor if you're
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looking to invest in yourself finding a
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mentor that's open to guiding you
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through life is one of the best
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investments you could ever make number
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three make friends your friends and
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network are your own personal and
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professional safety net your net worth
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is is directly correlated to your
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network the higher the quality of your
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connections the wealthier you are in
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life outside of professional and
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financial reasons to network what kind
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of life is it where you get to go
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through all of it without sharing it
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with the people you care about other
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people's happiness becomes your
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happiness and the person who doesn't
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have friends lacks a big piece of the
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puzzle that we call Life invest in
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quality friendships sometimes this will
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mean time others it'll mean investing
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money or even resources keeping those
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friendships alive requires work if your
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friendships faded away it's because
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neither of you made it a priority to
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invest in that friendship and you know
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what both parties are worse off because
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of it number four travel
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far this point expands on the previous
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two ones in our experience the farther
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you go the more your understanding of
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the world changes in the best possible
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way 10 hours away by plane and the
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entire way people look at life changes
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Karma comes into play or maybe a
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different type of education customs and
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traditions the further you travel the
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less self-centered you become you
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realize there's an entire world out
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there that's been going on forever
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without knowing or caring about your
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existence and that moment of realization
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is quite a big milestone in one's
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journey travel is one of those very few
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things that when you spend money on it
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it makes you richer so Embrace travel
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make it a priority to see hard to- reach
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places don't be a tourist be a traveler
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you'll never learn about the country you
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visit in a Starbucks or a McDonald's
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embrace the culture and allow it to
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shape your identity and you will be
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richer because of it number five take
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courses to build skills the best
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investment that someone could make in
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themselves is to acquire new skills in
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their life skills are like upgrades to
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the quality of the potential outcomes
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you can achieve they're like valuable
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tools that you can put to work and the
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best thing about learning new skills is
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that nobody can take them away from you
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once you learn how to do them they're
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with you forever some skills you acquire
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naturally as you grow through life in
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various forms you might have the skill
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to effectively communicate with people
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which gives you a huge leverage into
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expanding your network but you might
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lack other skills like how to make clear
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and practical objectives for yourself
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your life is cheap because you think
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investing in yourself is expensive if
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you think spending $15 on a book or $250
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on a course is too much money you're not
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there yet in your journey to understand
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the ROI of you a single idea from a
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understand that Health neglect is an
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invoice coming your way in the future
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most people take away from the future
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and use that Health in the present the
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more you develop the more you understand
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the ROI of good health of good sleep the
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difference between running at 95% brain
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capacity versus running on the fumes
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that the Red Bull gave you at 3:00 a.m.
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invest time and money into learning
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about nutrition and the body and then
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invest effort and money into making sure
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you're reaping all of the benefits of
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that knowledge number seven sell
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something now this is a piece on the
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most valuable ways to invest in yourself
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right but hands down one of the best
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ways to grow is by trying to sell
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something so many skills have to come
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together in this type of exercise that
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your growth accelerates because of it it
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as with everything the more you do it
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the better you become at it when you set
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your goal to sell something you have to
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figure out what to sell who to sell it
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to how to communicate with that
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potential buyer and figure out how to
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deliver and close that deal all of these
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steps can be translated to other parts
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of your life which is why practicing
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selling is one of the best investments
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you could ever make in
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yourself number eight optimize your
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environment now this has two clear
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benefits so first of all time management
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you're no longer wasting time figuring
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out where all of your stuff is or what
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you're supposed to do next second is
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increasing efficiency well organized
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spaces allow you to get more done
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quickly even if you don't follow a
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minimalist approach to life the idea of
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having things organized is something
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most youths are struggling with the bad
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thing is some people never shake off
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their entire lives living in a constant
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environment dominated by chaos happiness
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success and the feeling of calm come as
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a result of you putting order into the
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chaos of the world so begin by
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optimizing your immediate environment
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and expand
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outwards number nine teach
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something if you want to master
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something teach it to others because
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teaching is an incredible tool it forces
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you to rationalize things in a way that
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is easy to comprehend and follow it's
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one of the things we hated most in
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school learning stops the moment you
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begin to memorize stuff instead of
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learning formulas and word by word
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paragraphs learning should be about
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understanding when you're teaching
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someone anything it coerces you to make
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sure that you have a good enough handle
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on this topic at hand so that you can
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pass on that knowledge efficiently in
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the process you're getting a lot of
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value for yourself too because the
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information you're teaching gets
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cemented into that wisdom palace called
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your
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brain number 10 build a separate income
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stream that's not dependent on you now
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this is the only purely Financial point
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on this list you're here because you
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want to know how to invest in yourself
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right well invest your money so you
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don't have to work for money the oldest
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advice in the book let your money work
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for for you you will never be rich as
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long as you're trading time for money
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the moment you're able to generate a
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second income stream that's independent
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of you your life changes it might not be
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a lot but if you do it right it's there
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to stay the most important thing is that
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it's not dependent on you bringing in
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more income otherwise you just got
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yourself another job so here are three
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books that we strongly recommend on this
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topic so first of all the 4-Hour Work
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Week second the $100 startup and third
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the parable of the pipeline read all
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three of these books and figure out how
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to build for
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yourself number 11 clean up your image
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investing in yourself means giving you
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access to the highest number of
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opportunities to get there you need to
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sacrifice those headstand keg chugs that
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you and the boys Did Last Summer that
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are all over the Internet we all judge
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people by their appearances and your
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social media profiles are the New
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Emperor's clothes you're probably lying
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to yourself if you think it doesn't
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affect you clean up your LinkedIn do
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some press and opportunities will start
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coming your way now you can start taking
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better care of yourself learn about
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Fitness and grooming about personal
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hygiene in the snowball will keep on
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rolling down that hill in your favor
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number 12 expose yourself to Art and
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creative ideas
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regularly most people don't see just how
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valuable art is they think that
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paintings are overpriced and who has the
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time to look at statues buildings or
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print anyway we've got a TV celebrity to
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bash on Twitter instead but creativity
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breeds value and the only way to be
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creative is to exercise your creative
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muscles think of it like light in a room
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the more you expose yourself to others
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the brighter yours shines you connect
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dots differently you learn about
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different approaches
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outside of family art and beauty is
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probably our favorite thing to be
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surrounded by Art should inspire you it
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should make you think it should make you
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question things it'll tell you more
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about yourself that's why you should
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make a habit out of coming face to face
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with creativity in any opportunity you
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have now there are two great shows on
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Netflix which you should definitely
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watch if this sparked some interest in
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you so first abstract the art of design
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phenomen Al show which spoke to our
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creative side and two Chef's Table we're
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big Foodies over here but their take on
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creativity and storytelling through food
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is really what got us and look okay
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where else are you getting this kind of
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homework number 13 learn a new language
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learning a new language has immediate
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Marketplace value it'll get you better
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jobs or better deals because of it but
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that's not all when you're learning a
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new language your brain is expanding
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you're learning culture you're learning
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new structures which all have recurring
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results over time it doesn't hurt that
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your inner circle increases in value
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because of your newfound passion going
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to a restaurant in Italy and ordering in
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Italian makes all of our Italian friends
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throw their hands up and cheer it gives
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you the feeling of being embraced by a
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culture and there's so much value in
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learning that you can do something just
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like this number 14 better equipment and
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tools out of everything on this list
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this is the most straightforward one buy
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better tools that allow you to either
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one increase the quality of your work or
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two do your work faster early on in your
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journey at least 70% of your residual
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income should be reinvested in equipment
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that is directly correlated to bringing
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in more money why well because these are
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things you need to buy once and then
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you're good to go at one point you'll
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have everything you need and these pools
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will pay for themselves in the short to
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medium term don't be afraid to spend
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more on things that make you money not
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only are they a deductible expense but
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you can't afford to be wasting time
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fixing issues that could be solved by
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simply throwing money at them and lastly
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number 15 practice introspection and
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stop saying yes to now this
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one's about investing time into yourself
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here's why introspection is one of the
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most valuable skills that we've
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developed over the years it ties in with
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meditation but not only that we're all
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carrying a bunch of baggage with us
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right whether you see it or not the goal
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of introspection is for you to solve the
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issues of the past one by one until one
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day all you have to carry or stress
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about our issues at hand right now in
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the present this is a fundamental step
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toward happiness okay not having to
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worry about the anchors of the past is
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Illuminating and freeing can you imagine
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getting to a point in your life where
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all all of your worries boil down to
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simple and trivial things you should
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okay the additional step to this is by
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not bringing in new issues now some of
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you and we're willing to call you out on
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this say yes to things that you know you
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don't want to do and people take
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advantage of that leading you to a more
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miserable life than you deserve so stop
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doing this okay stop living for other
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people and start thinking about what you
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want out of life yourself in investing
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in yourself means taking all of these
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things that we've mentioned seriously
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and pursuing them because you understand
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and can see that they have a direct
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beneficial impact on your existence
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which makes us wonder how many of these
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15 do you actively pursue let us know in
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the comments and as a thank you for
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those of you watching this video until
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the very end you're being rewarded with
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a bonus Golden Nugget invest time before
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you invest money until you have enough
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money to invest to buy time now this is
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one of those Concepts that have governed
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Our Lives to the better half of our
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professional life growing up poor we
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didn't have very much to invest but we
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were all given the same amount of time
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so we put as much time into it as
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possible into things that had the
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potential of getting us to the point
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where we could buy time with the money
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that we've made and here's a deep point
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that we want to get across to you the
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true alers who watch these videos until
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the very end if you have to choose
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between investing money and investing
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time always invest the money okay you'll
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probably run out of time before you can
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run out of money and we know this might
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sound difficult to grasp at first
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especially if you're early in your
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journey but keep this gold nugget in
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mind and one day it'll hit you right and
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things will click for you you'll find
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yourself overpaying in the eyes of
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others but they don't even know that
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you're actually buying time here
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everything we've mentioned in this video
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is meant to help you become more than
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you already are everyone loves to talk
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about the return on investment or even
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the return on time but we want to raise
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the following question what's the return
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on yourself the
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rou because nobody can make you rich
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nobody can make you fit nobody can make
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you smart it's not them it's you it's
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the passion the hunger the desire that
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you're channeling for change
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you are the one generating a positive
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return on your life never forget that
