a bubble and then burst, or a new technology  can rise like there is no tomorrow and crash  

within minutes. That's the nature of investing  but not if you invest in yourself. No one can  

take away that from you. It doesn't matter what  happens to the world. That investment in yourself  

will pay back one way or another. We talk a lot about the stock market  

and real estate, but we seldomly  talk about investing in yourself. 

If you ask financially successful  people about their greatest investment,  

they will say that it was  an investment in themselves.  

Warren Buffets' greatest investment wasn't in Coca  Cola but a communication course from Carnegie. 

For a long time, college was considered  the greatest investment one can make  

in him or herself, but in the 21st  century, in the age of the internet,  

that's not the case anymore. Almost every  information that's out there is right in your  

pocket. All you have to do is pick your smartphone  and google it. In this competitive digital world,  

let's find out what are the best ways you can  invest in yourself and outperform everyone else.

1. Start a small business I know that it could sound a bit absurd.  

How starting a business is investing in yourself  

but before you throw at me your  angry comments, head me out! 

There is no better way to invest in yourself  than trying to build a business. In the process,  

you will grow so much that you cant even imagine  it now if you haven't started any business yet. 

Running a business is extremely difficult.  You need to be good at so many things,  

especially if it's a startup. You will  have to improve your communication skills,  

manage your time better, understand the basics  of finance and at the same time cope with stress. 

You don't have to start anything huge, especially  if you don't have the resources. Start an online  

business even with as little a 100 bucks. You can buy a Lawn Mowers for a hundred bucks,  

for example, and start a side business  cutting your neighbour's grass. 

In fact, I started this channel  with just a hundred bucks.  

I am not one of those guys who started watching  youtube since its early days but much, much later.  

And I realized that most of these Youtubers just  share their ideas and experiences, even the most  

successful ones started with almost nothing. So I said to myself, I have a lot of ideas too,  

how about I start sharing them with  the world. Let's see how that goes. 

I ordered a blue yeti microphone for a little  over a hundred bucks and started making videos. 

I have to admit that, There were absolutely  horrible because I knew almost nothing about  

video editing or animations and  I didn't really care much because  

it was more like a hobby than a real business. But then I slowly started improving the quality,  

and somehow it started picking  up, so I had to hire animators,  

and now it's like a little business. You don't necessarily have to start a youtube  

channel. There is an endless number of online  businesses that do not require a lot of capital.  

Let's say you are good at playing  a guitar or violin. You can find  

someone who can help you with shooting and  editing it for as little as a hundred bucks. 

Turn it into an online course and sell it online.  And the great part about it is that you don't  

even need a website because right now, there are  multiple great platforms to sell courses for free! 

And if it turns out to be successful, you can  slowly turn it into a legitimate business. 

You can easily earn back your  money and make much more. 

We are lucky to be alive t this age because no  matter where you are in the world, pretty much  

everyone has an internet connection. So this  is probably a great option for most people.

2. Learn a valuable skill I am a big fan of reading books and  

learning in general. However, in my experience,  skills are far more important than knowledge.  

Think about how much information you have  consumed in the last week or so. Probably a lot,  

with every video you watch or every article  you come across or even every post you see when  

scrolling your news feed, you learn something new. And now, let me ask you this? How much of that  

information is really useful. not much!  In fact, you will end up learning a lot of  

unuseful stuff in your life, which  is not a big deal. But consider this. 

How many skills do you have? I guess not many,  but you use them pretty much every single day. 

That's why focus on acquiring more skills.  Every new skill means another source of income.  

the more skills you have, the  more money you are going to make. 

You can read as much as you want about social  media, but it isn't going to help you much,  

but if you learn to place effective  ads on Facebook, for example,  

you can instantly turn it into a source of income. 

Or you can learn graphic designing,  copywriting, web designing.  

There is an endless number of skills that  could be turned into a source of income.

3. Invest in your productivity
 People say that time is money,  

but that's not true. Money can be earned  back, but time can't. Once it passes,  

there is no way you can restore it. If you are  a teenager, you will never become a child again.  

If you are an adult, you will never become a  teenager again. If you are an old man, there is  

no going back. We all have 24 hours a day. Even  if you become the world's richest person, you  

will not have more time than the poorest person on  the planet. So guard your time as much as you can. 

If you can invest in something that  can save you some time, do it!  

Be it a habit you have to develop  or an app you have to buy.   

I try my best to set my day in such a way that  I can take the best advantage out of every hour.  

Of course, I don't plan every minute because  that will make my life look too robotic  

and make it boring, but if I don't plan it  carefully, I will end up wasting most of my time. 

Some people waste hours every single day  because they can't fall asleep easily.  

Just lying on your bed for 2 hours just to  fall asleep is 2 hours wasted every single day  

or 60 hours wasted every month,  or 720 hours wasted every year.  

That's enough time to master a new  skill or start a side business.  

Then what should you do? Well, find a way to  fix that problem. In my case, for example,  

I tried multiple things until I found out that  if I wear my earphones and turn on an audiobook,  

I can fall asleep within 15 minutes.  I found out that I am much more productive in the  

morning than in the evening, so I started waking  up at 6 am and started going to sleep earlier. 

Invest in making yourself productive  because time is the only thing you  

can't buy. The more productive you  become, the more time you will have.

4. Invest in knowledge Just a few minutes ago,  

I told you about how skills are far more  important than knowledge, but that doesn't  

mean knowledge is useless. In fact, the more  you know, the more opportunities you can spot.  

In one of the previous videos we talked about  the number of great opportunities that could have  

turned you into a millionaire, but you missed  them because you were too late to the party.

The only way to spot such opportunities is to  understand how new emerging technologies work.  

Those who understated how cryptocurrencies work  early on realized their potential and invested.  

Today they are millionaires and,  in some cases, billionaires. 

Those who clearly saw the future of transportation  understood that moving to electric cars is the  

future and heavily invested in Tesla and also  became millionaires. There are endless examples.  

The only way to spot a great opportunity is to  invest in learning how they work. We know that AI  

is going to be huge in the figure, learning how it  works can help you to spot the next billion-dollar  

opportunity. Or the quantum computers,  virtual reality, and so on and so forth. 

5. invest in your health

Most young people don't pay enough attention to  their health. When you are a teenager or an adult,  

your immune system is at its peak, so even  if you don't exercise, eat unhealthy food,  

it can handle that, but over time as you  start getting older, your immune system  

starts getting weak and you start getting sick  more often. Because you didn't pay attention to  

your health back when you were young, now you  will have to spend more time in the hospital. 

Don't make that mistake, don't destroy your health  for some short term pleasures. Eat healthy stuff,  

exercise, don't stress out about little things  that don't deserve your stress, and have fun.  

Remember, investing in yourself is the best  investment you can make. Don't spend a single  

day without investing in yourself in one way or  another. These are the 5 ways that I personally  

invest in myself. I do my best to learn new skills  and take care of my health as much as I can. 

And now it's your turn, how do you invest in  yourself? Which one of these points did you like  

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