BEST INVESTMENT? CHECK THE MIRROR

The best investment is the one you believe in.

Do you believe in yourself?

Then invest in yourself.

Start with your health.

Instead of jumping from diet to diet, one exercise routine to the next, first get comfortable with yourself.

Society has a standard. You’ve seen it, maybe chased it.

But, it’s a standard foreign to most of us.

It’s the Red Carpet standard, the professional sports standard, the Kardashian standard.

The people associated with the red carpet, sports, and reality TV have all invested in themselves.

Stars walking the rug take the time to look as good as they ever have, or take the anti-style path.

Both are investments to show they are worthy of the walk. And it takes time to get it right.

When one of them looks thrown together in a haphazard way, it still takes time. Big suits and plunging necklines are planned. It’s not an accident.

Sometimes it works. Most of the time who remembers?

If it works for them, then it’s their best investment, not yours or mine.

Use Your Knowledge?

I love hearing this: “I wish I knew what I know now when I was younger?”

What’s that all about? If you’re not dead you can still use what you know. And learn more.

But maybe you feel like you don’t know enough to matter?

Welcome to the club.

The problem is with the people who feel like they know enough and don’t need to know anymore.

Unfortunately for them, things change.

Way back in 2008 folks bought in to home loan fiasco that promised returns on housing investments too good to be true.

Instead of raking in the cash, things went the other way and people lost their houses, their savings, and their confidence.

Blame went everywhere, but it settled on folks who followed bad advice.

When it sounds too good to be true, use caution.

Tom Brady And The Kardashians‘ Best Investment

Who today is more self-invested than Tom Brady and the Kardashians.

We watch the oldest football player in the league have his best year, an NFL leading year.

He is his best investment, but not the same as a Kardashian.

We watch his game preparation every time he steps on the field; the Kardashians show their preparation in every picture, every video, in every marriage.

Neither of them looks like they’re going away any time soon.

Why?

They know what the people want and are able to deliver year after year.

And it’s helpful. Who doesn’t want to look like Tom Brady? Like a Kardashian?

Your best investment, and mine, is not swooning after sports stars or reality celebrities, but making ourselves better than we were the day before.

When we stand up, when we raise our hand, it’s not to fit into a box established by media figures.

We stand up in the power of our knowledge and how we apply it. That doesn’t happen overnight, which is why we attach so much importance to surrogates who stand up for us.

Who Do You Stand For?

I’ve written a few posts about a heroic woman who stood up as tall as I’ve seen.

Madison Shanley sang the National Anthem before a Portland Timbers game in a red shirt that said, “You Knew.”

The land of the free and home of the brave never rang more true.

It wasn’t a popular move for team management, but it was important to Madison and those who’ve felt the hurt of abuse and arrogance.

People like to get away with what they know is wrong and like to blame others when it’s found out.

I asked a lawyer what it’s all about.

“We have laws and we have people who take it to the limit. When someone oversteps, we get the call to sort things out.”

Your best investment is knowing where the line is. That’s knowledge worth sharing.

Age and experience are the hallmarks of knowledge. If you look smart, you must be?

If you look decent, you probably are a decent person?

Any librarian will set you straight: Don’t judge a book by its cover.