Constant self-improvement is a vital habit for anyone who wants to be successful. That applies to your finances, relationships, businesses, investments, and your health and happiness.
Why Invest in Constant Self-Elevation
I prefer to refer to this as ‘self-elevation’. If you are not improving and moving up, you are slipping. A plane can’t just hang there in mid air. It has to stay in motion. You can’t just sit back and think your relationships with your kids or others are okay and become complacent because they will soon start to fall apart. You can reach a certain level in business and think you can just hover there. However, you’ll quickly find others eating up your market share. You can’t just save $100,000 and put it under your mattress or in a poorly performing 401k and think you’ll be fine. Market changes and inflation alone will eat that up fast. You can’t get in great shape and then stop working out and expect to maintain it.
No matter what you want, you’ve got to keep elevating yourself.
What is Self-Elevation & Improvement?
It’s about growth. Financial, mental and otherwise. Learning new skills, making new strides, expanding and making more effort.
Some people think of self-improvement as just getting more. They focus on just building their brains with what they can get out of books, trainings, and so on. Some go to networking events or social media to see what they can get out of it to boost themselves. Some organizations take the approach of just continuing to improve their bottom line by charging customers more and giving them less service and value.
I think about this differently.
They say “if you want love, you’ve got to give love.” So, I think about self-improvement and elevation in terms of how I can keep adding value to others. I ask questions like, “how can I help more people?”
Some people will know exactly where they need help. Others need to be shown their blind spots and led.
How to Keep Elevating & Growing
The specifics will be slightly different for everyone. Yet, there are some constants and principles everyone can draw from.
- Sharing more of your knowledge and experiences
- Connecting with more people
- Staying visible
- Paying attention to what others are telling you
This is one of the main reasons I launched a new video channel and podcast at PFREI.co. I want to inspire more people. I want to help by teaching them the ropes of rehabbing and notes. That way they can improve their own lives and finances. They can do it faster, safer and more profitably if they learn from my wins and mistakes than blind trial and error on their own.
Blogs like this one you are reading now are a great way to give to others, share, and reach more people. It’s also a great way to keep yourself out there and peel back some of the layers. When I’m appearing at events and speaking, I’m very much in suit and tie mode. People want you to be professional. Though I’m also learning to let me hair down more on social media. People need to know the real deal of what it’s like behind the scenes. When it’s dirty, chaotic, you are fixing issues with contractors, and you are living a real life. Instead of the polished version we see on TV too often, this is more authentic and real.
Over the years I’ve learned that the market changes a lot. And you can’t just wait for these changes to show up in the data either. By the time it’s public knowledge it’s already too late. Through hosting mastermind groups, engaging with live audiences, and staying out in the street on the pulse of the market every week, I’ve learned to listen and pay attention a lot more. There’s a great value exchange, if you learn to listen to think, learn and help, not just while you are waiting for your chance to deliver a speech or lay down how you think things should be.
How much are you investing in elevating yourself each quarter? What are some of the things you do to keep the momentum of your growth up?
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