Let’s say you invested one million dollars in a thoroughbred racehorse.
You spend all that money in the hopes that you have bought an asset that will appreciate in value and make you a lot of money over time.
How would treat that asset? Well you’d make sure it had the best quality food, it took regular excise, maybe hire it a trainer. Ensure it was training hard but not past breaking point to cause itself an injury and you’d definitely supply it with a comfy stable to make sure it was getting a full and restful nights sleep every night.
You certainly wouldn’t feed it a diet of junk food, you wouldn’t buy the cheapest food possible for it and you definitely wouldn’t let it go out drinking every weekend with its mates or even worse let it smoke. You wouldn’t keep it up late at night to then wake it up early the next morning. And you wouldn’t overload it with social media images comparing it to other racehorses.
And why would you go to all that bother and spend all that cash? Because you’ve made a solid investment in this animal and above all else when it gets on the starting line you expect it to F**king win. You demand it perform and expect results because you have taken such good care of your investment.
Our mental and physical health is our biggest investment and yet we don’t always take care of it. How can yourself expect to perform in work, the gym, your relationships or any other field if you don’t look after your investment?
Recently I’ve started to invest a lot more in myself. Making better choices in the quality of my food, in the quality my sleep and in the quality of my down time because I fully expect better of myself.
Take care of your racehorse, look after your investment and expect it to win.
(FYI: I 100% stole this amazing metaphor from Zig Ziglar).