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Increasing Your Value and Increasing Your Income

Your job is an opportunity for you to take your game up to the next level, to become all you can become. Your job is an opportunity to contribute, to add value to your company far in excess of your cost. Learn to be an asset, someone who brings in greater value every day. Learn to develop the attitude of someone who can make things happen, someone who can be counted on to produce superior results consistently. In its simplest terms, your job is only as secure as your ability to render value in excess of what it costs to keep you on the payroll.

If you want to earn more money at your current job or in the marketplace, you have to increase your value, your contribution to the enterprise. It follows the basic law of economic supply and demand. Offer greater value than your peers and get paid more money for that greater value. Always ask yourself how can I contribute more now and in the future? One thing is for certain if you want to attain higher levels of success in any organization, you have to find a way to contribute value to that organization. There is no such thing as job security in the current marketplace. If you want any kind of job security, you must continually work at maintaining and increasing your value in the competitive marketplace.

And here's a key point. Your education, knowledge, skills, talents and abilities are investments in your ability to contribute a value for which you can be paid. But they are like any other investments. They are highly speculative.

There are more opportunities for you to fulfill your dreams and aspirations in the American economy than have ever before existed, or than exist anywhere else in the world. You can be, have, or do anything that you can dream of by preparing yourself for better and better jobs. It is never crowded at the top. There are no traffic jams on the extra mile. Your job is to get good, get better, and then make yourself indispensable.

Jim Rohn says "the major key to your better future is YOU." Put that some place you can see it everyday, in the bathroom, in the kitchen, at the office, anywhere where you can see it everyday. The major key to your better future is YOU. Try to remember that every day you live and think about it. The major key is YOU.

Jim Rohn says the major key to your better future is you. Lock your mind onto that. This is a super important point to remember. The major key is you. A friend of mine has always answered when asked, "How do you develop an above average income?" He says, "Simple. Become an above average person. Work on you." My friend says, "Develop an above average handshake." He says, "A lot of people want to be successful, and they don't even work on their handshake. As easy as that would be to start, they let it slide. They don't understand." My friend says, "Develop an above average smile. Develop an above average excitement. Develop an above average dedication. Develop an above average interest in other people." He says, "To have more, become more." Remember; work harder on yourself than you do on your job. For a long time in my life, I didn't have this figured out.
You see the real difference is inside you. In fact, the difference IS you.

Someone once said, "The magic is not in the products. The magic is not in the literature. The magic is not in the film. There isn't a magic meeting, but the magic that makes things better is inside you, and personal growth makes this magic work for you.

The magic is in believing. The magic is in daring. The magic is in trying. The real magic is in persevering. The magic is in accepting. It's in working. The magic is in thinking. There is magic in a handshake. There is magic in a smile. There is magic in excitement and determination. There is real magic in compassion and caring and sharing. There is unusual magic in strong feeling and you see, all that comes from inside, not outside. So, the difference is inside you. The real difference is you. You are the major key to your better future.

Trust that your work is worthwhile and making a vital difference.

Legendary Indy 500 racecar driver Andy Granatelli said once, "When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world."
Bob Buford has written that many people spend the first half of their career pursuing success. When success alone is found to be lacking, they give the second half to the pursuit of significance, which is far more satisfying.

If your job is not making a difference in this world, by all means, get out there and find something else. But in many situations, you'll find a sense of making a difference through your work if you simply look for it.

Challenge - Find a job big enough to keep you growing for the rest of your life.

If the job you have now offers no opportunity to grow, decide to grow anyway. Invest in your own personal development, sharpening leadership skills, interpersonal skills, and technical skills. What you'll discover is that your organization will find a place for a person who has made a priority out of growth. And if they don't the competition will! .

"To position yourself for tomorrow, here is one of the most important rules you will ever learn: "The future belongs to the competent." The future belongs to those men and women who are very good at what they do. Pat Riley, in his book The Winner Within, wrote that,
"If you are not committed to getting better at what you are doing, you are bound to get worse."
To phrase it another way, anything less than a commitment to excellent performance on your part is an unconscious acceptance of mediocrity. It used to be that you needed to be excellent to rise above the competition in your industry.

Today, you must be excellent even to keep your job in your industry. The marketplace is a stern taskmaster. Today, excellence, quality, and value are absolutely essential elements of any product or service, and of the work of any person. Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you do. The market only pays excellent rewards for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average performance, and it pays below average rewards or unemployment for below average performance. Customers today want the very most and the very best for the very least amount of money, and on the best terms. Only the individuals and companies that provide absolutely excellent products and services at absolutely excellent prices will survive. It's not personal. It's just the way our economy works.

To earn more, you must learn more. You are maxed out today at your current level of knowledge and skill. However much you are earning at this moment is the maximum you can earn without learning and practicing something new and different. "Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." Abigail Adams

"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."
Chinese Proverb

And here's the rub. Your accumulated knowledge and experience is becoming obsolete bit by bit, day by day. The knowledge in your field is doubling every three to five years. That means that your knowledge must double every three to five years just for you to stay even.

The solution to the dilemma of continuous change and restructuring is continuous self-development. Your personal knowledge, talents and abilities your ability to take action and apply that knowledge are your most valuable assets. To stay on top of your game, you must continually add to your knowledge and be willing to take action to implement what you've learn. Take action, if you fail get the lesson on move forward. You're going up the escalator of life or down the escalator of life, there's no longer any room for standing still. You better be distinct or you'll become extinct. You must continually build up your mental assets if you want to enjoy a continuous return on your investment. And only by growing your current assets do you stop them from deteriorating. Grow or die.

By engaging in continuous self-improvement, you can put yourself behind the wheel of your own life. By dedicating yourself to enhancing your earning ability, you will automatically be engaging in the continuous process of personal development. By learning more, you prepare yourself to earn more. You position yourself for tomorrow by developing the knowledge and skills that you need to be a valuable and productive part of our economy, no matter which direction it goes."

Management guru Peter Drucker says the best way to create your future is to invent it.

Each day offers an opportunity for improvement. Each moment an advance or retreat in the pursuit of your goals. What you need is an all out commitment to life long learning. The Japanese call it Kaizen which means making incremental, continuous improvements little by little every day. To be successful in the 21st century you need to immerse yourself in a process of ongoing personal development. Personal development is a lifelong pursuit because life is a continuous work in progress, a journey not a destination. Remember what my mentor Paul J. Meyer says "success is the progressive realization of worthwhile predetermined personal goals". You never totally arrive; there's always some polishing to do, knowledge to gain, and love to deepen. Self-development ends only when we end, when we come to the end of the line like when you're dead and buried. You are, and will always be, a self in evolution.

Here's a truth you can take to the bank and make money on. You are personally responsible for your own self development and the results you get in life. It all starts and ends with you. Actually it starts in your head as a thought and thoughts turn into attitudes and attitudes turn into behavior and behavior turns into results. Self-improvement begins at home, inside our heads. Don't allow your thinking to develop into a negative, emotionally draining attitude to be your handicap. Make it your attitude your greatest strength. Every day you need to consciously choose the books you're going to read, the tapes you're going to listen to and the people you're going to associate with. Consciously everyday put yourself in those situations where you are feeding your brain positive information otherwise by default you will be exposed to toxic doses of negativity from the media.

Almost everything we do in our life is done from habits. Habits-good and bad alike-are lifelong companions and hinder us or help us on our journey of personal development. Your challenge is to withstand the effects of your own bad habits. Bad habits are like landmines strewn through the landscape of your life. Eventually you will become a casualty to your own bad habits. The only problem with good habits is that they're so easy to give up!

Spend your life learning how to develop new more positive habits. Living is a performance art that requires you to do the hard work if you're going to do it well. We think, write, produce, and act out our own story. Life is fired at us point-blank; we must constantly decide what to do with it.

Life is an ongoing journey, with lots of beginnings and continuations. A good friend of mine once told me to focus on progress not perfection. Being a bit of a perfectionist I always wanted it to be better, but sometimes we just get hung up on perfection and don't make any progress. We never get to a point when all knowledge is attained and understood, when our bodies function flawlessly, when we completely honor our values, and achieve every goal.

If you work at your job you will make a living, if you work on yourself, you will earn a fortune therefore work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Management guru Peter Drucker says that the truly educated person today is a person who has learned how learn continuously throughout their life. Management consultant Tom Peters says that continuous learning may be the only real source of sustainable competitive advantage for individuals and corporations in the future. And author Peter Senge, who wrote the Fifth Discipline, says that only learning organizations, those organizations that are capable of taking in new information, adapting it, and using it faster than their competitors, will survive and thrive in the fast-changing, competitive world of tomorrow.

The best investment you will ever make is an investment in yourself because the dividends from this investment pay off every day in a positive way. Who cares if our computers crash as long as our people don't crash? Our concern should be are we and our people prepared personally. Is a business out of business because the building burns down? Only if all our people are inside of it. So the best commitment you can make is to yourself and your people. The only investment that pays a dividend every day is an investment in yourself and your people. The only investment that's a sure thing is an investment in your knowledge and education. You can buy stock and it can go up or down. You can invest in other stuff and it can go up or down. The only investment that will return a continuous flow of profit is an investment in you.

Every day offers us the opportunity to improve ourselves. Every day we advance towards our goals or retreat to the land of mediocrity. I find with many people that they are not willing to truly invest in their own success. Investing in yourself is a critical success factor in the 21st century. And when I say invest, I mean both financially as well as time, effort and energy - good old "sweat equity." In learning we grow, and in growing we become successful.

My challenge to you today is to invest in yourself right now. Yes, BUY something. Then utilize it. The idea is to take action right now. Invest in your growth. Invest in your future. Pick up that book you have been meaning to. Buy an audio tape series and listen to it in the car. Don't just spend your money on coffee or movies - spend your money on something that will make you grow! GROW OR DIE!