Believe that you have value.

 

      Believe that you have something to give to the world.

 

      Anthony Robbins says, The single most important and potent way to expand your income is to devise a way to consistently add real value to people’s lives, and you will prosper.

 

      If you can add to your life more skills, more ability, more intelligence, more creativity, more caring, more personalized service, more organized systems–and thereby increase the quality of life for the people around you–you’ll be able to earn more money.

 

          I’m not just talking about entrepreneurs.  If you’re employed right now,make yourself more valuable to your company.  Don’t expect a raise every year simply because you show up every workday!  Develop your job skills, learn new ones, look for ways to improve your company’s products and systems, search for procedures to make the work of your boss easier, and think of ways where your company can save money.

 

          I know of someone who entered as a clerk in one of the biggest companies in the country.  This guy simply didn’t stop making himself more valuable, he enrolled in any course he found useful to his profession.  His bosses noticed his drive and kept giving him new responsibilities until he ended up as the company’s Assistant Vice President.  Sound like a fairy tale?   Not to me.  I’m talking about my father…

 

             If you are self-employed, ask how your business can touch and bless the lives of your customers.  Again, by making your business more valuable to people, earning profit can be the only consequence.  My friend expanded his restaurant business considerably when he asked what his customers wanted to eat and at what prices.  He asked questions.  He took down notes.  He experimented.  Marketing people will say that he did a market analysis, but in my language, he simply learned how to love his customers in a better way.

 

Discover Something That You Have

That Others Need

 

 

        You have something that people need.

 

       I don’t know what that is, but I know it’s there.

 

       This is the basis of the entire world of business.

 

       This is why people like you and me can make a living, work in jobs, and earn a profit.  “Having something that people need” is the foundation of any trade–whether it’s the guy selling peanuts down the street or the multi-billion corporate empires of the world.

 

       You have something that people need, and you need to discover what that something is.  It could be some latent talent or skill or preference that you have.  It could be your creativity.  Or your patience.  Or your dreams. Or your cooking.  Or your talkativeness.  Or your silence.  Or your knowledge.  Or your hobbies.  Or your interests.  Or your tastes. 

 

       But somewhere out there, someone needs what you have–and they’re willing to pay good money for what you have.

 

The Bible says, Do you see a man skilled in his work?  He will serve before kings; he will not serve before obscure men. (Proverbs 22:29)

 

       I love the simple life.  And the simple life is not poverty.   The simple life also means earning efficiently–utilizing the least amount of time and energy for the most profit–so that you have time for spiritual growth, enriching family life, and loving service to brethren.  I’m not talking about giving in to greed.  I’m talking against underselling yourself and being inefficient in your use of time.

 

       I know of someone who was an excellent religion teacher in a school.  For years, he loved sharing his faith to his students.  But one day, his youngest child acquired a severe illness that needed expensive medical care, something he couldn’t afford with his current pay.  Forced to look for a more profitable income, he asked himself what he had that others needed.  One day, it just clicked in his brain: he’s a great teacher, but this time, he can teach professionals.

 

       Today, my friend is an in-demand speaker at human resource seminars, giving self-development courses for executives to rank and file employees all over the country.  On the side, he impacts them with his faith perspective.

 

       I know of someone else who wanted to give jobs to the poor people who lived around her home.  She always loved artwork, and so directed her attention in that field.  With some encouragement from her husband, she designed some very simple gift items using native material, and entered a big-time exhibit in Manila.  In her mind, she doubted whether anyone would like her very plain and easy-to-make creations.   But in that exhibit, an English businessman saw her products, liked them, and made his first order.

 

      Her little “hobby” is now a successful export business that gives livelihood to eighty poor families.

 

      What do you have that others observed as significant, beautiful, useful, and very good?   First, expand whatever that thing is.  Increase it.  Multiply it.  Enhance it.  And second, do some research.  How do others who also have what you have make a living from it?  Continue to be open.

 

       Discover something that you have that others need.

 

       May your dreams come true,

 

 

       Bo Sanchez

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