Invest in Knowledge!

To invest is to put  time, effort, money and all one has into a venture with a mind to getting profit from such. A lot of investment opportunities abound when it comes to business but the underlying factor for any kind of investment is knowledge. It will be foolhardy to venture into what you have no hint of. I daresay every human endeavor needs some amount of knowledge. You want to get married, you need to know what marriage entails and you prepare yourself for it. You want to study at the University, you need to know which University offers the course of your choice.

Many sources abound for knowledge; Books, CD, DVD, Newspapers, Magazines even from talking to peers, co-workers, family and the aged (believe me, those "Old School Mamas and Papas"  are like a treasure chest of knowledge and experience. No wonder that  adage says "what an old man sees sitting down, a young man cannot see standing up." It is because they have been there, seen and done it all!) .

The cheapest way to acquire knowledge  (and even become an expert) about anything is by reading books. I started reading at the age of eight, then I was reading Mills & Boon romance series, though hidden inside my Macmillan textbooks. I had to disguise it as my textbooks because my aunt, from whom i had stolen the novel from would skin me alive (funny, she did the opposite when she eventually found out, she encouraged me to go for "my size" so to say).  Later in Secondary School, i met friends who had a deeper hunger for books. One of them stood out, in the sense that when we all were reading romance novels, she kept herself busy with motivational,inspirational and business books. She started doing business while in the tertiary institution and by the time we were doing our National Youth Service, she had a thriving business. And that was when I started acquiring knowledge about business. Oh, how I love Rich Dad, Poor Dad in those days!

What's my point? Don't limit yourself to a particular genre of books. Read widely. Parents, encourage your children to read widely so as to have a balance. Spend time with books in your area of interest or purpose in life but endeavour to read others too!