Are you adding value to yourself?
Today, I had a conversation so meaningful it made me take a step backwards to take a second look about many things in my life such as my long term goals, my objectives, visions and such. They say a picture means a thousand words so, read on and take a look at the picture at the end of the post, you’ll know exactly what I mean…
Here’s what happened, I had a brief but meaningful chat with my BIG boss today and I’m really happy we had that chat. My boss is an almost perfect role model of a successful person so, I’m pretty sure he’s got the knowledge and experience in life to actually teach all of us a thing or two.
Anyway, we were chatting about how we should always be adding value to our clients. By adding value to them, we’re doing a lot more extra work in order to come up with those values. Here’s the juicy part, by doing all those extra work, by going the extra mile, we’re gaining a lot of extra knowledge and skills too - thus, adding even more value to ourselves…
He went on and on explaining to me about how it works and all. Later in the session, he went on to talk about how one should never work for money but work for the knowledge, the intelligence, the skills, the experience and so on and so forth. Few years back, I would immediately think to myself… “You’re so up there, of course you say so”
Fortunately, I’ve grown a little bit wiser this time and his words actually found a way to my mind. I find it to be so true now. Money is important to earn but learning is even more important. Put it this way, when you learn and add value to yourself, over the years, you become someone of value. Someone of value will always, always have money coming their way.
So, why worry about money now?
Worry about what you’re learning,
not what you’re earning!
This is especially true to the younger generations these days, the newbies, the fresh graduates and such…
I know, most people won’t get this, it takes a lot to really understand this theory but when you finally do, you’ll know what my boss was talking about.
Now my friend, whatever it is that you’re doing, ask yourself again and again, besides financial gains, are you gaining anything else doing whatever it is that you do?
Think hard about this question… think really hard…
Are you adding value to yourself?
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