Invest in yourself ; the dividends pay daily

Jake Belford
2 min readAug 18, 2020
Start small.
Follow Jack.

I love this thought by Jack ; digital interactions = investment vehicles.

This is the biggest shift I’ve made in prioritizing my time. When I wrote this tweet, I was speaking to myself.

When you begin to take yourself seriously, others follow suit.

This has been, by far, the biggest unlock in my early progress.

In the past 8 days, I’ve secured enough work to go from aspiring full-time writer to real-life, bona fide, no joke, 100% verified full-time writer.

How? I re-balanced my self-investment portfolio.

I sold my coffee meetings and bought publishing my thoughts on Twitter.

I sold my catch-up chats and bought discovery calls with potential clients.

I sold watching YouTube on my 2nd monitor and bought “lo-fi hip-hop beats to write to.”

If you’re just starting out, think diligently about your self-investment portfolio.

From my recent experience, I urge to invest in yourself ; the dividends pay daily.

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Jake Belford

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