Written by Edgar Luna

Albert Einstein once said “The most powerful force in the universe is “Compound Interest” and called it the “Eighth Wonder of the World”.

“Those who understand it, earn it and those who don’t, will pay for it”.

“Compound interest is interest added to the principal of your investment so from that moment on the added interest also earns interest”.

No I will not be talking about  finance , however, like in finance this applies to everything we do in life on a daily basis.

Think about you, being the principle at this moment in time, you are who you are. 

So how have you invested on yourself up to this point on your life?

The current you is a product of all those life decisions or  investments over the years that have compounded interest and given you the person that you are today, physically, mentally, spirituality, etc.

Those daily investments that have been compounding interest for years or decades are things that are in the past and you cannot go back in time to change them, you might feel satisfied with your investments or maybe not.

Regardless of how old you are, you can start investing on your principal, which is you, and can benefit from any good thing you start doing daily. 

If you are in this world right now you have time, opportunities and resources to invest on you wisely.

Take a good look at yourself and determine where would you  like to start investing more wisely, then start investing a little every day.

How?

Maybe you want to focus on your well being; then you can start by adding a physical activity,  like walking every day. It doesn’t matter how much you walk that first time, you need to start, then add a few more steps or minutes to your activity everyday. Be persistent and consistent and you will soon see that after some time it will compound interest and become a mile or much more per day.

Maybe instead of having your daily sugar loaded drink or snack,  skip it and start cutting back to half a drink or snack to one maybe  every 2 days, then cutting back more and more. If you start cutting back, it will compound interest and eventually provide you with results.

Maybe find a good book to read and start reading  a paragraph a day, then add more paragraphs each day then  it will become a page a day then a few pages per day. That information you are reading will start to compound interest and you will be surprised how that information feeds your mind everyday and you start seeing the benefits.

As you do one, two, three or many more things daily you will start noticing changes that might not seem much in the moment you are doing them, however they are compounding interest.

However the same way interest compounds for your benefit, it will also compound interest in the opposite direction, so whatever you do be mindful of where your daily investments are going.

Once you take that first step and start, you will have to be diligent and patient and always have your focus on your long term goal.

As anything in this universe everything starts small like a tiny seed that when planted, watered and cared for, will become a big beautiful tree. Or a cell which constantly is splitting and growing exponentially.

That is the law of the universe.

Wherever you are today you can start right now with very small changes, and if you apply yourself you can take advantage of the “Eighth Wonder of the World” which is at your disposal every single day of your life.

E.Luna