The surest way to achieve a better quality of life, be successful, productive, and fulfilled is to place priority on investing in both personal and professional growth. The effort you put into consistently investing in yourself plays a large role in determining the quality of your life now and in the future.

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But how often do we pay attention to the truth above?

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How much do we pay attention to utilizing available trainings to expand our knowledge, stay up to date and explore the creative part of us? Hardly!

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Thing is, we'd constantly have head trash that interferes with our growth if we do not take the bold step towards intellectual investments.

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I've been in your shoes before and I know the things that we tell ourselves to create a barrier between our current state and our future state. Things like, 'I don't have money', 'It's too expensive', 'How long will it take me to make back the money I am investing'.

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When we consider these things, we slip into a state I term Risk Aversion.

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Risk aversion is the behavior of humans to avoid taking risks basically because the return on investment is ambiguous or hard for them to understand or too small compared to the period of time involved.

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At this point, we sit back and just wish that growth will happen. Well, I'll be here waiting for anyone who has a resounding testimony of how he or she grew by sitting down to wish that as they advanced in age, growth will happen.