I recently finished reading Customer Experience 3.0: High-Profit Strategies in the Age of Techno Service by John A. Goodman. I would like to share a snippet that I found simplistic yet so powerful.
Don’t know who Jim is? Unfortunately, he passed away in 2009 and left a great philosophical footprint on economics and personal development on the world.
He mentor, Earl Shoaff asked him to come up with his own formula on how to allocate your income. He came up with the following:
We all know the value of time when investing. Time in the markets, not timing the market. But what about the cost of time. Or more so, the time that we have available to us to think about how we are investing.
I have come to a personal conclusion that you have to develop and implement a continual learning process in life. I don’t think it is enough for us to finish school and/or university and be satisfied that our learning is complete and to be comfortable with what we pick up from nine to five.
Simple messages placed throughout are so clear, clever and meaningful and are as relevant now as they were in the distant past. Have a read over the following which I have tried to summarize: