Why Expense on Personal Development is the Best Investment You'll Ever Make.

• Author: Rathod, Faisal Saleem

Byline: Faisal Saleem Rathod

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head. ~ Benjamin Franklin

The topic being discussed today is very close to me, it has various aspects to it. In developed countries individuals along with multinationals have started focusing on personal development.

Indeed improving yourself, enhancing your skill set and training yourself to become a better person physically and intellectually is a great investment which has big rewards in long run.

The reason is really simple.

Improving yourself proactively, working on your awareness, improving your skills and knowledge about how you can get to the edge of your potential, all of that is an investment into the greatest asset you'll always have: Yourself.

We have numerous examples to second this claim, take for example the fact that almost every financially successful person started out with a transformation to become the person who is then able to achieve that kind of success.

I'm an advocate of the lesson that personal development comes first, financial success follows.

Well-known Billionaire investor Warren Buffett says that the very best investment you can make is one that "you can't beat, can't be taxed and one that not even inflation can take away from you." Buffett advocates that "ultimately, there's one investment that supersedes all others: Invest in yourself. Nobody can take away what you've got in yourself, and everybody has potential they haven't used yet."

Today, the need of the hour is to change the mindset, the need to consider the money spent on personal developing or simply a book as an investment rather than expense. Parents in Pakistan need to stop differentiating amongst their own kids on gender basis, provide equal development opportunities for both the genders. Secondly, instead of saving millions for children marriages and house, parents need to spend money to develop their kids to the level that they can pay for their own marriages, house and well being.

As individual money...