I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately.  I think I have always known this but it wasn’t until I was listening to a pod cast, Smart Passive Income by Pat Flynn (learn how to earn your own passive income here) that I finally became conscious of it.  Anyway, Pat had a guest speaker on his show who was totally successful in his passive income streams and some advise that he gave was to keep investing money you make into your products (or whatever it is that you’re dealing with).  In other words:

— Invest in yourself 

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1. You have more control over you than you do anything else in the world

You can control everything about you, with a little bit of positivity, a heap of optimism and a handful of reality… or what I like to call real optimism.  You can choose how far you’re willing to push yourself.  This means that when you invest in yourself you know what you’re in for!  Sometimes there are things that will seem impossible, you just need to start, to stay mentally strong and persevere.  Hard work and a strong will is more powerful than anything else!

2. You are low risk
You know your limits, possibilities and how far you are willing to go to get to where you need to be.  You know your situation, your goals and your ideas.  So when investing in yourself you’re investing in a sure thing, provided you’re willing to commit – but of coarse you are if you’re about to invest in yourself!

3.  If you’re not prepared to invest in yourself, who else would? 
Good luck finding people who are willing to follow you, buy your product or put their faith in you if you first don’t have faith in yourself.  You need to back yourself before anyone else is going to be willing to do the same.  Have some confidence, have some faith!

4. You are responsible for your own success
Take ownership! No one else in the world is more responsible for how successful you will be.  No one cares more about how or why you succeed than you do.  You will of coarse have those around you who want to see you succeed, who want to help and motivate you.  But at the end of the day you need to do things for yourself

5. You are responsible for your own happiness
You need to find self love and the knowledge that you can do things.  Nothing is impossible.  You need to create your own happiness and the only way you can truly be happy is if you can love yourself, your capabilities and be inspired by what you can achieve.

6. You have the power
You can push yourself, motivate yourself and you can be as resilient as you need to be.  You can be tough, loving, kind and firm.  You can make the decisions you need to make, you can seek advise from whoever you need.  At the end of the day, you hold the power over your life, over your business and over your success.  All you need to do is back yourself!