1222. The Price of Personal Growth: What Money Can’t Buy

You can’t buy some things 

Amazon came around and destroyed the game with 24 hour deliveries 

The same with instant messages- anywhere in the world you can send someone a message and it’s there within a second. 

That’s good for most things, but there are some things you can’t buy 

You can only cultivate them.

• Effort 
• Confidence 
• Self esteem 
• Self worth 
• Fortitude 
• Grittiness 
• Persistence 
• Knowing what you truly want 
• Imagination 
• Gratitude 
• Resilience 
• Belief 

What if you could buy these things? How much would they cost? 

The fact that we can’t buy them, and we notice someone that displays these characteristics? 

People take notice, people are attracted to this type of person. 

You can only earn this stuff:

• Doing things when you don’t want to
• Taking the hard road 
• Dad after day 
• Doing the small little actions that add up over time 
• Taking care of yourself by working out and eating right. 

And not everyday is going to be a W 

Some days are harder than others, some days get lost. 

But it’s over the course of time, 5, 10, 15, 20 years 

20 years may seems like FOREVER 

Twenty years ago I was only 8, but 20 years from now? I’ll be 48 

Someone who’s 48 now – they’re 20 years look different too, perspectives; experience 

The first twenty years can’t compare to the last 20 years 

Its changing the references up and being okay with that 

To trust the process 

Someone who’s walked the road we want to walk down, we don’t have to know why or how or if it makes sense 

The person we’re listening too, they’ve walked this road – we can’t see what they can 

Keep stashing things you can’t buy into that personal bank of yours, the payoff is going to come sooner than you think.

Where can you start to sharpen the blade in your life? What quality can you begin to dust off and slowly uncover?

For me it’d be effort, self-worth, persistence, and knowing what I want,

• Effort: into being more productive and effective with my time, not in a way where I need to do more but more being where my feet are, especially during downtime.
• Self-worth: respecting that my time is not renewable – saying yes to something is a no to everything else.
• Persistence: this relates to knowing what I want
• Knowing what I want: truly knowing what I want and spending time on this reflection exercise – I feel like I do know what I want, but often time it changes within a few weeks or months – maybe this is the process of life, or maybe I just need to spend time really deciding.

Trust the process, the rest will come.