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#1444 - One Of The Best Possible Uses For Your Money
The returns on self-investment are not always immediate, but they always pay off in the end. In this episode, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros talk about the true power of investing in personal growth and self-improvement. They discuss ways to start investing in yourself today, from hiring a coach to picking up a book. It's not just about the money - it's about showing commitment to your evolution. They discuss how these small investments can make a significant difference, especially for those who tend to keep promises to others more than themselves. They also talk about unintentional impediments along the way, with people around us holding us back without realizing it, and how to overcome these obstacles.
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Show notes:
[3:01] Investing in yourself
[6:58] Why don't people invest in themselves
[11:00] A good coach will keep you accountable
[16:16] Tim credits Alan's guidance and the Next Level Business Solutions for the transformative impact on his business
[17:00] Practicing one thing you learned
[23:09] How valuable books are
[27:53] Pay for one thought that could change your life
[32:09] Outro
Next level nation. Welcome back to another episode of next level university, where we help you level up your life, your love, your Health and your wealth. We hope you enjoyed our latest episode. It was episode number 1443. Six things that will set you apart from 99% of people today.
Speaker 1:For episode number 444 one of the best possible uses for your money when I first got into self-improvement, alan, when I first got into this life, you Were the person trying to convince me of what we're gonna talk about today, and I didn't believe you. I Didn't think you were dumb, but I didn't think you were all Knowing either. So there was a part of me that was like I don't know. I wonder if you even really completely know what you're talking about or you just really confident in the words that you're saying to me. I Remember Alan said this quote. He said Kevin, skills monetize forever. And I remember thinking I don't even know what that means. I don't, I'm not really sure what that even means. It sounds cool and I'm sure there is a point to it, but I'm not really sure what that, what that saying, means. Yet I actually use that on a podcast.
Speaker 1:The other day somebody said what is the best advice you could give someone. When it comes to money and I said, the level of your success most likely will never exceed the level of your self-improvement, and you have to understand that when you learn a skill, when you learn a new piece of knowledge, when you get a breakthrough from a book or an audiobook or a TED Talk, that might end up making you a ton of money in the future. Slash, you might have a Greater relationship. If you learn something, if you're watching YouTube videos on a fitness or you're paying for a course on fitness, you're probably gonna have better fitness and health results. I said so if I could go back and tell myself anything at the beginning Of this, even though I had somebody try to tell me I would say the most important or one of the most valuable uses of your money is investing in yourself, in your own self-improvement. We in the US are going through a concert season right now where there's a lot of outdoor concerts and people are going to very, very expensive concerts and while I have nothing against that, this is an adjudgment I wonder how many of those people Would spend $500 on a course, as opposed to maybe $500 for concert tickets. I don't think I would have, in the beginning, full transparency.
Speaker 1:I was more focused on Buying a nice car or having a large TV or whatever it may be when I was first into self-improvement. But as I continue to learn and grow and evolve, I started to make different decisions with money, and that is definitely Paid for itself in many ways. I told Alan, I learned something recently in One of the books I'm listening to by Phil M Jones. We had him on the podcast, I don't know, a couple years ago Maybe, and it's not something I didn't know. It's not that. I learned something I had never thought of before.
Speaker 1:I learned something about him that made me Reassured in something I knew about myself. Is that gonna make me a dollar today? It's really hard to connect the dots on that. Will it make me a lot of money eventually and over the course of time? Absolutely. That is what this episode is about. One of the best possible uses for your money is to help you improve, to help you become more healthy, to Help your relationship. It really is investing in you and your own self-improvement, your own personal growth, your own personal development.
Speaker 2:Brian Tracy talks about this a lot. The the investment that you make in yourself Apparently over time, can return 30 to 1. So if you could go to Las Vegas and put a dollar into a slot machine, the idea is that you'd get $30 back. And if you could do that, how long would you play? And the answer is as much as possible. But it's difficult to Invest a dollar today and not get your $30 until 10 years from now, for five years from now, and I think that that's why those things don't land for people. Yeah, if you buy a course for $500 and you invest time into that course, you might not make your money back for Several months, if not several years, but maybe in the first year you make $500 back. Maybe in the second year you make $1,500 back. Maybe in the third year you make $10,000. With what you learned, learning accumulates, but with the concert tickets you get to go this weekend, hmm, and you get all of the fun and all the pleasure right away.
Speaker 2:And I think that that's why a lot of people Don't invest as much in themselves. The other piece of it is they don't believe in themselves. Why would you invest in your, your own brighter future, if you don't believe in your own brighter future and what's ironic about that is, if you don't invest in your own brighter future, your brighter future is not going to be bright, and then you're going to prove to yourself that you shouldn't have invested. So it's a self-fulfilling sort of thing. So my question for you, kev, as someone who Struggled in the beginning to invest in themselves, I came to you recently and said hey, I want to buy this leadership course. It's $275 a month for 24 months, forever, forever.
Speaker 2:And I think it came to like three grand at the end of the day. And you said you know, eventually I basically said I just I got to do this and you were on board. That will pay us back so much it really really will. But here's the thing it hasn't yet, yeah, and so my question for you is why aren't people Sold on their own brighter future? Why don't they believe enough in their own brighter future? And I guess why? Why isn't it more encouraged For people to invest in their own skills and their own Personal development?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a deep question. I think one of the reasons is a lot of the people trying to convince you to invest in yourselves Aren't actually adding value. So say we had a $997 course. Maybe someday we will. I don't know, I don't know if we'll ever have a course that expensive, maybe. But say we had that, but it was really garbage, it wasn't good. And every time I talked to one of the nlu family members I said, hey, you really got to get this course. This, this is going to change your life, it's going to be amazing. And then you go and buy this course and you realize you just spent $997 and it's not valuable. I would say that's probably one of the reasons, maybe one of the chances you're going to buy another course yeah.
Speaker 1:I had. I had a call with a client last week and this client is somebody who invests in themselves a lot. They they spend money on coaches. They spend money on business coaches. They're surrounding themselves with people who are ahead of them in things that are important to them. And they said I just invested in this Program and in these coaches and they're terrible. I'm so disappointed in what I, in what I received. I'm so disappointed.
Speaker 1:The reason she invested in this round of coaching is because she had a previous coach who was really, really good. She had a really good experience and said, wow, that was definitely worth it. Let me try that again Now. It was not such a good experience. Will she be as open to spending $10,000 or whatever she spent in the future? Probably not she. She might be a little bit gun shy. So I would say negative experiences are one for sure.
Speaker 1:And yeah to your point, it's very hard to say, okay, well, $500 is going to come out of my bank account today. When can I expect to make that money back? I don't know. Depends depends on a lot of things. Depends on your level of Commitment when you're learning. It depends on what you do after. It depends on your consistency. It depends on a lot of things, so I think that's a big part of it too is to your point. You're going to take $500 out of my bank account today and I have no idea if and when that money is ever going to come back, and I don't even know if I'm going to be doing what I'm doing five years from today. Too much uncertainty. There's a lot of uncertainty.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of uncertainty understandably.
Speaker 1:Going back to, I was reviewing the podcast last week and one of the episodes or maybe it was a teaser clip I shared I don't remember, but one of the episodes we talked about was when do you feel most in control and where do you feel most out of control? If you feel in control when it comes to your ability to learn something and then implement it, you probably are the type of person that would say yeah, this is for me. I can see kind of how this would work. That's worth it. If you Identifies the type of person who isn't a good learner, doesn't Learn through watching or listening, and you learn through doing. You might say to yourself I don't know. I don't even know if this is going to be valuable enough for me to Make my money back off of. That's another piece of it.
Speaker 2:I would say too if you do struggle to implement. I think there's a book called the four tendencies by Gretchen Rubin and we've talked about it many times in the past where there's four different Archtypes in that book. One of them is called an obliger. This is someone who can keep promises to others more than they keep for themselves. Statistically speaking, our listeners tend to be obligers. I never made this connection before, but if you are an obliger, having a coach will help, definitely if it's a good coach. If it's a good coach, which I, I don't think I can recommend any coaching other than NLU coaching these days. I could definitely recommend Evolve Ventures, for sure, but there's very few coaches who I believe in at this stage, enough to actually recommend to our community, quite frankly.
Speaker 2:But, at the end of the day, if you are an obliger and you struggle with keeping the promises to yourself, having a good coach will help you stay super accountable. I have people tracking habits that would never do it for themselves and they're going to get results they never would have gotten without the coaching, just because they're doing it for me more than they're doing it for themselves. So that's another investment that you can make in yourself. If I said you could make, you could invest $150 per month into one one hour session, but you also are going to get with that a habit tracker that I make sure you do. How much would that make you if you could start doing the things and tracking the habits and that kind of thing? So, at the end of the day, if you don't believe in yourself and you don't believe in your ability to implement and you don't believe in your ability to even finish the course and you don't believe in your ability to learn and you don't believe in your ability to follow through on what the course tells you because you're not going to feel like doing it and maybe you don't believe in your level of self-discipline, it's going to be very hard to invest in yourself. But one thing that I will say is, when you put skin in the game, when you invest in something you very rarely want to, let it be for nothing If you were to and there's a lot of coaches out there that charge $10,000 packages or $5,000 packages or whatever for six months of coaching I'm the only thing that I do believe that benefits people beyond what I think. There's a lot of coaches out there that do that. That I don't think are worth it, and I'm just going to be transparent about that. One thing that I do think is fascinating about those situations is people who pull out a credit card and put $10,000 on a credit card for a business coach. You better believe you have skin in the game and you're going to do anything you can to make that coaching worth it, so you're going to implement at a greater level. That I will say. You will implement more when you are afraid to waste that money than if you didn't have any skin in the game. So even just investing in yourself.
Speaker 2:It looked like I wasn't paying attention to you earlier on this episode. I am used to that. Yeah, it's because I was looking through my Facebook DMs. There's a book club member who recently reached out. There's actually been several who recently reached out and said I'm so glad I bought this book Limitless by Jim Quick. I live under this delusion that everyone has read every personal development book.
Speaker 2:I don't know where I get that but the idea of not having read Limitless by Jim Quick. It's very challenging for me because I just kind of combed this entire industry, found every good book I could and just read them all Not all of them, obviously, but most of them. Limitless to me is like a. If you were to have a library of 50 books that are gonna help you achieve your dreams, limitless would be in there At some point. We're gonna have like a book list. If you go to the website, we'll put a link in the show notes. If you go to the website, there's a list of books that we've read in book club and there's a couple weird ones in there, but they're all extremely, extremely valuable.
Speaker 2:If you spent $15 on Limitless or $20 or whatever it is, I have people saying thank goodness I bought this book and actually shout out to Alicia. Alicia messaged me saying I'm so grateful that we're reading this book in book club. I've gotten that a lot with Limitless and so whatever this book is doing, it's really helping people a lot. But what it really is is it's an investment in yourself. You had to buy the book, you had to buy it on Audible or you had to buy a hard copy. I have a hard copy right here. It's actually Emilia's, so technically I didn't buy it. She did, but you're also investing time into reading it.
Speaker 2:You have to believe that it's gonna be worth it. Otherwise you'll never do it. And if you are skeptical as to whether or not Limitless is gonna be worth your time, just try hard to get rid of the skepticism. Just for a minute, Give it a shot. Obviously it's gonna help you. There's no version of you reading Limitless with it not helping you. I just there's just no way. There's no way you know everything in that book. There's no way. Now, some of it you will know. Some of it won't be helpful, that's okay, but 80% of it is probably gonna be like holy crap and it's 15 bucks, you know.
Speaker 1:But even the stuff that isn't helpful. From the perspective of something new, sometimes it's reassuring. Oh, okay, I've been doing that for a minute. I'm good for me. Oh, I remember I read a book. What was the sleep book? Sleep Better, maybe, Sleep Smarter, Sleep Smarter? I remember reading that and there was a lot of stuff that was very illuminating. It was very powerful. But one of the things was you keep your room at 68 degrees or something. That's the ideal temperature. And I remember having that moment of oh, my goodness. I remember I used to have my AC on all night and it was cold in my room and I always feel like I slept really well when it's cold. Oh, I was onto something I didn't know I was. I don't know if it was actually 68 degrees, but I didn't know that. Now there's also I was asleep at 4 or 3.
Speaker 2:I was asleep at 4 or 3. We can have icicles in my nose.
Speaker 1:It's also one of the challenges, I think, is there is layers, so I was trying to think of an example and for you guys to get use to this information. So ll us ensuite and just recall, whoa Say, the first book you ever read was Rich Dad, poor Dad, which a lot of people start, especially in finance, and you learned one thing and you practice that one thing for the next five years and then you forgot that you learned it in that book and it just became second nature to you. Everything you've learned after that because of that is also connected to the book as well. That's why it could be one, even this podcast. It's free. Hopefully we're adding value.
Speaker 1:Maybe you heard something one time that altered a conversation that you had with your partner, that allowed you to be more deeply in love, that allowed you to, whatever have a more successful relationship and then start a family and then get a home. I'm not saying I mean maybe that happened in six years time. It's very it's possible. But sometimes it's just one thought that shifts, something that shifts everything else. It doesn't have to be. I've read a thousand books and I've learned every single thing in every book and now I know how to. Now I know how everything's connected. That's super valuable too, but I think there also is value to saying. Okay, well, I learned one. What's the one big takeaway? Sleep is one of the most important things ever. I conceptually I knew that, but I never really understood the seriousness of it. Sleep is way more important than I realized. Okay, I should probably put some, some more effort, some more. What's the word I'm looking for? Intentionality, tough one into it.
Speaker 2:Sometimes just one thought.
Speaker 1:Go on.
Speaker 2:If our listeners could invest in themselves, just to start small, what would you recommend as the number one most important investment for them to make in themselves? I think even just even making an investment of money into your own personal development, it will. It's, it's an act that shows you believe in yourself, and I think that that's powerful. I really do, I have. I have a client, my my computer's freaking out right now, I think. Are we good on StreamYards then?
Speaker 1:Yeah, everything was good on my own.
Speaker 2:Okay, I don't know, my computer's updating or something. I think Google Drive was doing something. I had someone text me today and I was pumped about this hey, can we get back on the calendar? She wants to start the coaching back back up. It's like, of course it's rock, that's an investment. Okay, what does that say? That says, hey, I believe in myself and I'm ready to get after it again. Let me put my money where my mouth is. There's something to that. And I I responded I said looking forward to sinking back up, talk soon. And to me, I know this person is going to get momentum back because they're ready to rock again. You can tell you don't, you don't hire a coach when you're like down and out and you don't want to take action. It shows me she's ready to go and there's something about that. So the question would be what's one small investment that you would recommend to get started?
Speaker 1:I would say under health. If you don't have a gym membership, don't ever, don't, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever feel bad about signing up for a gym membership. It was one of the best things in the world, and now you can go to Planet Fitness. I think it's like nine bucks, 10 bucks a month, and that's more. That's less than Netflix. So if you have Netflix and you don't have a gym membership, that's a. That could be a potential trade. I know we love our Netflix, and as I, as I do as well. A simple one. This is a. This is, this has been a game changer. I adopted this from you.
Speaker 1:Tara and I spent time with some friends this weekend and they have a new kitten and I think they were talking about the kitten having the zoomies and they said doesn't it bother you when the, the kiddies, get the zoomies at night? And I was like no, I have earplugs in. And they said you sleep with earplugs. And Tara's like, yeah, we both do. I mean, we've been sleeping with earplugs for I don't know years at this point and game changer. And then they were talking about it getting too light and I said I sleep with a mask on too. I have a sleep mask on. So I'm, I'm in the dark and I am in the, the silent night. More often than not, those are investments. The earplugs I remember the first time you sent it to me. They're not cheap, for a 20 pack.
Speaker 2:What are these made of man? Yeah, yeah, they're. They're pretty expensive.
Speaker 1:Now they last a good amount of time, but that's something they're amazing A good pillow.
Speaker 1:A good pillow might cost 40 bucks, but if it's going to get you more sleep, now again, here's the thing. I understand that maybe money is very, very tight and you're thinking Kev a $40 pillow, that ain't it Completely understand. Maybe a $5 used book on I don't want to say investing, but maybe just a money awareness book. Tara and I went to a used bookstore a while ago and I ended up getting like I don't know, maybe like 10 books for 50 bucks. Some of them are a little beat up, they're all used, but that might be a good opportunity Audible. I don't know how much it is for one book, but what is it? $34 for three or something like that.
Speaker 2:If you get the membership, you get one book every month for I think $16, and Then you get offered you can buy three credits for $34. Okay, and I think you have to have a membership to get the three credits though.
Speaker 1:I should probably know, but as the person who looks at the money audible.
Speaker 2:Yeah, right, audible will keep you reading because you get a new credit. I was on the phone with a client Thursday, no Friday, and he's like should I? I said what books are you reading? He said courage is calling. I was like dude, can that one? You've been reading that for too long. Right, you're courageous, congratulations, awesome, move on. Okay, and again, my coaching hardcore. And I say relentless. Have you read relentless yet? Because he's struggling to be consistent, I said download relentless. Now, that book's not for everyone and that's why you got to be careful with these book recommendations, because that's a bad book for Certain people. But he is definitely ready and he should read that. But he's like I have one credit, one more credit on audible. What else should I get?
Speaker 2:I looked through my Rolodex of books. I think, okay, here's this client, here's this client's goals, here's the book you need. Boom, hammered it. I forget what, what it was, but the point is is, if anyone needs help with what book to buy, that would be my answer Would be just a book, a personal development book, these books?
Speaker 2:Steven Kotler wrote a book called the art of impossible and he broke down the math of how valuable books are. He said you can get 15 years worth of my time in five hours of yours, and $15, obviously, or $20 or whatever it is. We read a book called the art of impossible before we interviewed Steven Kotler, and Steven Kotler, it took him. I mean, if you think about it, his career is what? 30 years of interviewing the world's most successful professional athletes and performers. We took 30 years worth of his Life, his knowledge, his wisdom, his experience, his insights, and we, with $20 of our money and five hours of our time, we're able to download all of that into our consciousness. Now, was all of it completely relevant and completely useful? I think for us a lot of it was, but at the end of the day, you can't get a better ROI.
Speaker 2:Roi stands for return on investment and I would say download Audible or by a hard copy book. That's a personal development book that you, it's got to be one of the fundamentals, the compound effect, limitless Essentialism by Gregory McKeon. You can't go wrong with that book. It's it's 20 bucks and if you, if you buy, one of my clients said this, she said when you Downloaded, or when you told me to download, essentialism by Gregory McKeon, that book after me up, man, hmm, and now she's years later and she's changed her whole world. She still talks about that book on our coaching goals. She still talks about how that book changed her life.
Speaker 2:Now, what you read in the book you might not like. One of the reasons she didn't like the book or she loves the book now but didn't like the book when she read it is because she wasn't an essentialist. She was running around like a chicken with her head cut off, doing everything for everyone, not focused on any of her essentials. And that's what the books about focusing on your essentials. Of course it's gonna be painful. I think the other reason people don't invest in books or in courses or in coaches is because we're here to tell you what you don't want to hear but need to hear. And if what you wanted was what you needed, you'd already have it, and Kevin and I spend a lot of time. We're gonna do an episode later this week about this concept where what you don't want to hear sometimes is what you need to hear to get what you really want.
Speaker 1:And A topic like this is not very sexy. Right there, this probably wouldn't be the episode where we have fireworks going off in the background and there's confetti and In a parade. Right, it's not a super sexy topic, but it is Oftentimes another Alan Lazarus quote sometimes the most valuable content is the most boring and it just yeah it's. It is one of those things where you can make learning more fun and you can make self-improvement more fun. But at the end of the day, it is the fundamental belief that me Pouring into my life is gonna be the best use of my time, energy, money, intention, focus. I did a post the other day of me in the gym and I said the gym, fitness in general, weightlifting specifically, for me, is one of the most humbling things in the world.
Speaker 1:Oh, so much and I wrote some other stuff. I don't know why or what, but I closed it off by saying if and I think I did, if I didn't, I should have if fitness is very, very humbling to you because you don't Know much about it and you haven't studied it yet, there's your first step. Simple, that's the first step. I'm not saying it's gonna be super easy, I'm not saying it's gonna come naturally, but the first step is to start learning about it. So that $15 to download a book or a course or going on YouTube there's a lot of valuable places on YouTube. They're completely free and spending a half hour learning about exercises or learning about metabolism or learning about mobility or sleep Hydration, whatever it may be that's gonna pay in different ways, not necessarily monetarily. You might not be able to connect it to that. I spent $15 on this course. Did I make $15 back? I don't know. But you, if you feel healthier, if you are more comfortable in your body, if you feel more consistent, if you have more self-trust, I would say that that $15 is worth it.
Speaker 1:The question, the next level nugget for me, would be how much would you pay for one thought that could change your life? If you could give someone $15 and you could get a thought that could potentially shape the next 15 years of your life, would that be worth it? My answer to that is yes. Would it have always been? Probably not. No, I probably would have said add a couple zeros, like give me 1500 and I'll go buy the biggest TV possible. I probably would have said that at one point. Now my opinion has definitely changed. I still like big TVs, but I also understand that if I want many big TVs in the future, I have to invest in myself so I can become more competent and add more value, and the way to do that is to invest in myself.
Speaker 2:My next level nugget is books. Hard copy or audio books will change your life if they're the right books. If you want a book recommendation, please reach out. I adore this.
Speaker 2:If you want to look at what books we've read in book club, I told book club I said I don't want this to be a fun book club. I don't. I want to talk about uncomfortable things. I want to talk about challenging things. I want to learn things we can implement every week. We set an intention and that's really what I want to talk about here at the end is, if you are looking for a place to start investing in yourself, book club is the place. And if you don't want to read the book that we're reading in book club, just just pick a personal development book that has I don't want to say that has positive reviews, because I know there's a lot of books out there that are rubbish, that have a lot of positive reviews. Reach out, Reach out. I would be happy to recommend books based on what will really help you achieve your goals and dreams, not based on what's going to get you to feel good.
Speaker 1:I would add our next hour, not our hour. Next round of group coaching starts. I think we switched it. I believe it's October 10th as of right now was October 3rd. I think we pushed it to October 10th.
Speaker 2:I'm honestly not sure. I think so I'm 99. Show the proper date though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I'm 99% sure We'll have the link in the show notes. But again, I don't know anybody else charging $97 for the amount of value that we're going to give you. That would be it. I'm not going to sell you on it. It's very, very valuable for what you're paying. I can't imagine a more valuable group coaching setting for that level of money or less. And the reason it is priced where it is is not so we can make a ton of money, it's so you can afford it. That was our thought process. It wasn't hey, we we're going to do group coaching and we should charge $5,000 a person so we can just you know we'll make $50,000, won't be that much time. It's going to be awesome. That wasn't it. It was how do we sustainably deliver value to a group of 10 people? We'll do it every quarter for the rest of time and it will be sustainable for those in it. So that is our intention with that. If you are interested, the link will be in the show notes.
Speaker 1:Again, I remember when I was younger, working on yourself wasn't considered cool. It wasn't cool to work on yourself. It wasn't cool to get a coach. It didn't seem cool. A lot of the people that used to say that I'm sure they wish they had coaches back then and I'm sure they wish they had coaches now because a lot of them didn't end up where they wanted to. Alan and I gave a speech at a school and I really wanted to say that to the kids. I know what we're saying doesn't seem super cool. I know it's probably boring, it's not sexy, but I promise this is the stuff that's going to make the difference and the people laugh right now are probably going to wish they paid attention. For obvious reasons. I didn't say it because I didn't want to get attacked by all the students, but obviously that is our belief.
Speaker 1:We have a self-improvement company and we are byproducts of that self-improvement, so link will be in the show notes. I believe it's October 10th of 99% sure Tomorrow for episode number 1445, two reasons why people unintentionally hold you back. I do not believe everybody has ill intent and everybody wants to see you fail. I think there are some inner things going on and that is one of the reasons people unintentionally hold us back. So we will dive deep into that tomorrow. As always, we love you, we appreciate you, grateful for each and every one of you, and at NLU we do not have fans, we have family. We will talk to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 2:Invest in yourself Next time.