If you aren’t willing to sacrifice time to make yourself better, how do you plan on sacrificing time for other projects?

Learning new subjects and techniques makes you fine tune your craft and round you as a person.

You learn new strategies and approaches towards familiar situations. You figure out different ways to solve problems you’ve run into. You get to make yourself better by understanding material at a deeper level and learning about new material.

Dedicate a specific amount of your weekly or monthly budget to learning.

You can spend the money anyway you want. You can buy books. You can buy new classes or courses. You can hire a coach to help make you better. It can be spent in a variety of ways.

That allocation of funds towards your personal growth is as important as an investment in stocks or bonds or your retirement.

It’s an investment in yourself for the future. Don’t go a month without investing back into yourself.

You can set aside a certain percentage of your salary or just a flat amount like $100.

If you don’t think you have the time or money available to spend on yourself, you need to evaluate your priorities. Personal development and growth needs to be one the most important items on your daily agenda.

Life’s too short to not learn as much as you can.

Try getting in at least 30 minutes per day for learning. You have the time.

Sacrifice the short term happiness and rewards for the long term knowledge and skills. The time you spend now developing yourself will pay off. Find the time each day.

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” -Mahatma Gandhi