In this informal, motivational vlog Samir Gardner outlines five practical ways to invest in oneself, emphasizing that health—mental, physical, and spiritual—should be the first priority before any business or financial investments. He begins with books, arguing that knowledge from reading about diet, productivity, mental health, and other topics equips you to help others and improve your own life. He then stresses the importance of eating healthy, including whole, organic foods and supplements such as vitamin D, black seed oil, or sea moss, likening good nutrition to premium fuel for a car. Next, he recommends acquiring kitchen tools (blenders, knives, etc.) to enable cooking whole foods at home, saving time, money, and supporting gut health. The fourth investment is exercise equipment—yoga mats, dumbbells, pull‑up bars—so you can work out consistently, stay youthful, and avoid endless consumer purchases. Finally, he suggests outdoor sports gear (basketball rim, gymnastic rings, soccer ball, running shoes) to encourage movement, enjoyment of nature, and a lean, muscular physique. Throughout, Samir’s tone is conversational and enthusiastic, urging viewers to prioritize these health‑focused investments for a high return on personal development.
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What's good, y'all? It's your boy Samir Gardner. Hope y'all doing good. So the best investments you can make, uh, in yourself. Now this is going to be more related to health because— no, no, I'm not saying just health like food, anything. I'm saying like mental health, physical health, spiritual health, or anything. So the first, which is going to be obvious, is books, bro. Books. I mean, you can get— I think knowledge is, I mean, it's key. I think books is a great, great way to get knowledge. Experience is better, but look, books. Read book about like a diet, read book about, I don't know, like productivity, read book about like health, read book about like mental health, read book about, I don't know, read books about things that, like, can literally improve, like, your way of living, basically. Books— like, the knowledge in books is underrated, but you got to be able to, like, remember it. You got to be able to— you know, it's not, it's not what I want to talk about, but look, you got to be able to remember, like, what you read and everything, because the knowledge is going to be so useful in the future, and you're gonna be able to teach people. That's, that's what I want to do. That's why I read so many books, because I want to teach people. I want to be like If somebody asks me a question, I know like what I gotta say, you know what I mean? Now the second thing on my list will be food, and that's obvious because boy, I don't care like whatever they say, like who you are, what you eat, or anything, but you're— you need to eat healthy, bro. Like if your health is not good, then why, like, why would you— like if your health is not good, for example, you cannot even enjoy anything, but you can't enjoy much. But I swear, I just like— some— something like on my body was hurting. I'm not gonna talk about this, but something on my body was hurting, and it's like it's hard to enjoy things when you're like you're physically hurt or mental, like, or mentally. But food, like, it's gonna make you— your skin more, more glowy. It's gonna make your body functions better. It's gonna be make you more attractive, it's going to make you more muscular, it's going to be— make you more healthy. You can teach people how to be healthy and everything. But it can be for you, it can be like organic food, it can be raw food, I don't know, like whatever you want. Uh, natural supplements, vitamin D, you know, things like this. Maybe black seed oil, maybe sea moss, like whatever you want. Um, but you know, things that like literally support your body. Because, well, you are, it's like you gotta put gas in your car and if you can put the best quality gas, then you're gonna perform at the best quality, you know what I mean? Now, the third thing on my list will be kitchen tools and I know this might sound weird, but instead of, because I said buy whole foods, buy quality food basically, it can be organic, it can be non-GMO, I don't really care, but look, kitchen tools because you can— I mean, most people already have them, but if you can make your own foods, you're gonna save probably time because ordering food sometimes like takes— if you go with your car and everything, it takes way longer and it's way, way unhealthy. Uh, it's gonna make you able to be able to cook if you're a man, bro. A lot of men don't want to cook. I don't know why, but it's easy and you learn, like, you'll learn so quickly. Uh, you'll learn like a new skill. You can cook for your family, you can cook for your wife. I don't know, you can cook for anyone. Uh, also like, bro, ketchup sauce, you can make, uh, any sort of food that you see like in the restaurants, in the— like, it can be like, for example, a sauce. It can be, for example, a dip. You can if you buy like a blender, for example. That's a kitchen tool for me. So, you know, you can make those things way more healthy fresh because you're using like fresh whole foods. If you invested in whole foods and you're making like— it's better than restaurants that like offer healthy foods. That's what you gotta understand. If you cook everything from scratch, well, that's a plus. That's a plus for your health, bro. That's a plus for your health. You're making everything before you eat it, like, not before you— yeah, before you eat it, so it's fresh, it's natural. It's about just buying natural food, use your kitchen to make everything from scratch. It doesn't even have to take a lot of time, and it's gonna save you time, money, happiness, because, boy, your gut is your second brain, boy. Your gut is your second brain. Food can literally cause like stress, anxiety, and everything. Food can literally do that because your brain is related to your, your organs. And well, like, I might make another video on that, but look, kitchen tools, food, books. Now fourth would be exercise materials. And you know, that's pretty much simple. It's It might not be like, I mean, it's a good investment, but for some people that might do, like, for example, calisthenics, might not be worth it. But look, you can buy, for example, a yoga mat. A yoga mat will help you. You can do yoga, you can do exercise, because if you— that's— exercise is another form of sort of investing in your health and you, or in yourself. You're going to be more attractive, you're going to be more feeling good. I mean, you're, you're going to be more looking young and everything. You're gonna be more happy. I mean, it's like this. You might just, for example, invest in some dumbbells. You might invest in some, a pull-up bar, like things like this, bro. It's gonna make your life better. And it's not like about consuming and, you know, really just buying things. Like instead of buying like all this fake, like, I don't know, consuming and consuming and consuming, Buy these things that will change your life. Instead of buying, if you really, really want to buy things with your money and everything, buy those things. Invest in you, invest in yourself. I'm not saying to buy everything because you just want to consume, but those things will help you a lot. Now, the last thing will be sort of like sports thing, and it kind of goes with exercise, but For example, it can be a basketball rim, so you spend more time outside. Uh, it can be like some gym, gymnastic rings, so you, you can go like on the tree and just put your gymnastic rings and do like the tricks and everything. So like, it came before you running shoes, like better shoes and everything. Can be— well, I don't know, it can be anything. It can be like a soccer ball because you don't have one. Can be— you can be just things like this that make you go outside and make you more like sort of like enjoy nature and It just makes your health better. It just makes your body more like healthy. I mean, you're gonna play sports, so you're probably gonna be looking more like lean. You're probably gonna look more like muscular lifting because you're just like always moving around. Like, you're gonna be way more healthy. So that's the 5 things I think for me is like it. I can add things like invest in business, invest in materials for you know, making more money and everything. But I don't think that's the first step that you should like really consider before you start investing into those things. You should invest in your health first, always, bro. Especially like mental health and physical health, bro. Especially like all those things I say, I think they can give you like a good return on investment. But that's it for the vid. Hope y'all liked it. 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