MultiLeveler Contributor Dave Stone writes:
Any business owner understands the need for continual growth and development. It is axiomatic that one needs to invest in their business in order to acquire the tools necessary to move the enterprise further along.
There is no shortage of avenues for us to spend our money on business development items. It seems that every day there is some new software upgrade that we will not be able to live without or some business guru has produced a new book or audio that guarantees to shine prosperity upon us. This could all be true. Investing in hard materials will be a necessity along with our personal education and development.
How do we invest in others in our business? How often?
This doesn’t mean we should purchase business materials and give them away to those on our team. If they run out of some samples and have a potential customer waiting, sure, help them out. I don’t think it advisable to bankroll anyone’s business on any kind of consistent basis.
What I am suggesting is that if you invest YOUR TIME with those on your team, you will actually be investing IN yourself. I mean this in both the business sense and in the realm of personal relationships. The broader we make our associations, the wider our personal view of our own existence. Regardless of the outcome of our business activities, if we are open to experience the connections we make with others, we grow in ways that are immeasurable.
Investments seek to produce some form of value. In financial terms, we seek to profit by placing at risk a specific amount of money. If we consider the investment of ourselves in the lives of others, what can we possibly lose?
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