Your Most Valuable Asset is You: Here’s How to Maximize Your Return
In one of the very first classes I ever had at university, and I’ll never forget this, the lecturer asked a simple question that would entirely change my perspective and how I engaged myself in the world. The question was this:
Looking around the room, people had started to raise their hands, and he followed with more questions,
After a few minutes of this interrogation of questions that have nothing to do with Accounting, he stopped and put forward another question,
One kid instinctively stuck up his hand and said, “My car sir!”
He’d fallen right into the trap and here’s where it gets good. The lecturer replies,
While I would now disagree with the latter half, the remainder of his statement was still very true.
And if your most valuable asset is you, here’s how to maximize your return:
While most people put their work before their health, you should actually do things the other way around.
Trying to work as many hours in a day is equivalent to trying to chop down a tree with a dull saw; you’ll be using a lot of time and effort but getting minimal results.
Instead, it’s better to spend lots of time in rest and recovery where you detach from work and let your mind wander.
You should step away from the noise in order to develop clarity and “sharpen your saw.”
When you then return to your work, you’ll be more motivated, rested, and powerful — everything will become so much easier.
Wrote Tim Ferriss,
If you what you’re seeking is true growth and development, it can’t be all about you.
Indeed, most people achieve a certain level of success and then become self-consumed. They think the world ought to bend to them and will only engage in relationships so far as they can benefit them.
But this is actually incredibly small minded and will only serve to hinder your success.
In order to evolve as a person and get to the next level of your development, you will need to transcend beyond your own needs and desires and put other people first.
You will need to realize that the success for one is a success for the whole.
As Helen Keller said,
Moreover, investing in others is how you get others invested in you. Creating relationships built on synergy is how you get a 10X return.
It can’t be all about you. Create a win-win.
For many, their learning curve stops after they go to college; they get a degree, settle into a job where do the same thing day in, day out and then collect a paycheck at the end of the week with no learning in between.
Hence why Hugh MacLeod has said,
Now, this is not a fun way to live and nor is it overly exciting. Your brain does not do well on sterile repetition. Rather, novelty, challenge, and uncertainty are all what your brain needs to thrive.
If you’re not regularly doing new things, then you’re reliving your past. You’re stuck as who you are and a victim to what you know.
You should always be striving to do things you’ve never done before. You should continually be working on projects that push and challenge you to transcend beyond your current level of thinking.
This is how you move beyond learned subconscious patterns and into who were meant to be.
As Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. has said,
Your most valuable asset is you.
While most people are more focused on their work than their health, it’s better to focus on strengthening the individual. As Jim Rohn has said,
However, this will only get you so far — what got you here won’t get you there.
It will get to a point where you’ll need to move beyond your needs and goals to put other people first. Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Finally, you should never be stuck repeating patterns of the past. You get to choose how steep your learning curve is and in turn how big your life is.
Where will you end up?
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