Year of Focus: Week 8 Invest

“Invest your energy into something that is going to contribute in your growth.”

The Year of Focus:  Week 8

Word of the week: Invest

Invest- verb (used with object)

1. to put (money) to use, by purchase or expenditure, in something offering potential profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.

My father always told us, our greatest asset was time. It is a finite gift that is often squandered with petty indifference. With the word invest this week, I decided to focus on the ways I invest my time.

In 2022, I spent a good part of the year rationalizing the changes that were happening around me instead of investing my time in repairing. It was a year of questioning.  During that time, life felt difficult, and I struggled to find direction. 

Eventually, I recognized this as an opportunity to invest in myself and began tackling the tasks I could control. Learning the ways to invest my time that would help my future self, instead of worrying. 

In hindsight, everything makes more sense, and now I see how my participation was needed to create change. Part of my struggle was learning to adjust to a new way of living and focus my time and attention on balance. Not just creating time for work, but also time for play. A rhythm that changes in every season of life as we search for what makes us happy. 

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