10 Simple Time and Energy Investments You can make in Yourself

So often, we think of investments as being purely about dollars in and dollars out. If you put $10,000 into an investment with an average return of 7% a year, how much do you make after 10 years? Is it better to pay taxes on that money now, when you put it in, or when you start withdrawing later?

That’s great, of course, but I like to think of investment in broader terms. For me, an investment is when you spend some resource—money, time, energy, goods, personal capital, etc.—and receive something in return for that resource—money, time, energy, goods, personal capital, etc. In other words, almost everything we do in our daily lives can be perceived as an investment of some kind.