Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Well, hello, my friend. How are we today? I have an important let it be easy message for you right now. And it's called this. This episode today is called

You've Got to Invest. Now, my friend Farnush Tarabi says, let me get this right, because

when it's going to the other way around, you don't have to be rich to invest, but you have to invest to be rich. And this is not a

conversation or an episode today about the stock market, about making wise investments

with your money, with your savings. No. But it's about investing your resources the right

way. Okay. Are you sometimes like holding back,

you know, feeling bad when it comes to investing in yourself, when it comes to investing in your

skills, when it comes to investing in your health, when it comes to investing anything

that's going to, in fact, make your life better. I've actually got a fable today,

one of ASOP's fables to read to you. And I think this really illustrates the importance of

investing the right way very clearly in fable form. Okay. It's called the widow and the sheep. A certain poor widow had one solitary sheep.

At shearing time, wishing to take his fleece and to avoid expense, she sheared him herself.

But use the shears so unskilfully that with the fleece sheared the flesh.

The sheep, writhing with pain, said, Why do you hurt me so? What weight can my blood add to the wool?

If you want my flesh, there is the butcher who will kill me in a trice.

But if you want my fleece and wool, there is the shearer who will shear me and not hurt me.

Moral of the story?

The least outlay is not always the greatest gain. Think about that. The least outlay,

meaning the less we spend, doesn't mean we receive or get to keep the most. It's not about

all the less we can spend or invest the better our lives are, it's often the opposite.

In fact, I notice the most successful people invest in their health. They invest in a good

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