People talk about how they spend and invest their and Jared and I have blogged about that quite a bit. This week I would like to blog about how you are spending and investing your time. Many of you may never have thought about it this way but three years ago I was knocked off of my seat when I read this quote from Robert Kiyosaki, “The only difference between a rich person and poor person is how they use their time.”
This is from the book that changed my life, Rich Dad Poor Dad website. When I read that I felt like I was punched in the stomach. It was so obvious and simple but also profound. My life has been completely different since that day.This made me completely reevaluate my life and how I spent and invested my time. I became obsessed with how the rich and successful occupy their time. I read dozens of books on successful men and women and started to model my time management based on what they did with their time. I found that many of my daily actions were actually keeping me from being successful. I was spending over 3 hours a day watching movies and reading with no purpose. There is nothing wrong with entertainment but I was using it to distract myself from what I should have been doing, working on my success.
One of the things that I found that ALL successful and rich people did that the poor DID NOT was take at least one action EVERY DAY toward a written goal you have. No matter how small, progress was made every day.
So before you head out this weekend and go about your life, take a minute and evaluate how you are going to be spending and investing your time. Make a conscious effort to invest your time wisely and treat it like the precious commodity that it is. Take action no matter how small everyday to invest in your success.
Jeremy Burgess
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