“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”Jim Rohn, entrepreneur, motivational author
The education that we get in schools is more likely to prepare us for an employee type of life. Yes, it gives you a living, but it won’t make you rich.
If you want to succeed in your life, or in your career, it is advisable to rely upon the single solid and secure thing in your whole existence – yourself! By this I mean – You and Your knowledge. What there is inside yourself, what you know belongs to you and nobody can take that away. You can lose money, power, position, a job place, a business, but you will never lose the experience and the acquired know-how. Even better, you can always improve them.
That’s why it is good not to expect help from others or to get everything what you want when you want it. If there’s a support for you, that’s great, but don’t rely solely on that for solving your daily issues or for getting you a job. Everything that you need in order to succeed is within yourself. You are an intelligent person who knows what you wants, who has all the necessary tools for being successful.
You have to be your biggest investment. I’m not necessarily talking about money, but about time and energy. If you want to buy some self-improvement books or subscribe to some seminars and workshops, all these takes effort. It’s all up to you to say if it worth it or not. On the other hand, you can still be an employee, and learn from everything around you, so that someday you could make your own company.
The Internet. It has so much information in it that you just get lost in the woods if you’re not sure what you’re exactly looking for. Do you fancy having your own business and quitting your boring job? Then you have to be prepared to invest time in your own personal growth. What is it that you like? Do you know what your passions are?
The first step would be to realize what is it that you like to do the most. After that, you can try to gather all the information that you can get, at first, for free. Avoid all those “Learn how I made 50 000$ in one week!” proposals, as it will only shift you from your path. Let’s say you have a passion for training dogs. How will you make a product or business out of that?
Make a website. After that, try to get into online communities that are already specialized on this. See what you could do to bring in some value. Put passion in what you’re doing and you will soon discover how thrilling it is to have a thing that belongs only to yourself, and was created by you. You don’t have any overdue task and you don’t have to be bullied anymore by scary deadlines.
Use the free time that you (still) have to learn how you could make a business out of the things you like, whether we’re talking about dog training or hand-made products. You don’t even realize how much you’ll win if you’ll decide to start investing in yourself. Take advantage of every situation that there is to enhance your skills.
I’m not saying that you should quit your day-job and start dreaming with your eyes open. Even more, if the company that you work for sends you for a specialization course, seminar, conference, team-building; any other event of this kind, you must use it to learn new things that will help you to add more value to your own persona. You don’t have to be passive or bored. This is a change to meet more people and to make a good impression on them.
Don’t forget that each and every information you acquire, the skills that you have; they are all yours, nobody can take them, nobody can steal them.
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