What are you worth?
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
In this article you will find out how to always make good decisions. Never making a mistake is fantastic and you will learn how to do it.
In all models of performance, but mainly in independent businesses, each one of us earns what we deserve, according to the value each one of us has to the market.
Nobody is questioning the value of someone, as a human person. In that aspect, of course, all are worth the same. I’m saying that there is a universal criteria to establish how much money a person earns: the economic value that each person has got in the market in which that person operates.
This value is acquired through study, practice and modeling (seeing and copying).
– We all know that when we read a book we improve ourselves, increase our knowledge and thereby increase our value.
– We also know that by putting the information into practice we will gain experience that is one of the things that add the most value.
– We also know that being surrounded by the right people with the mindset, the skills and qualities needed, we evolve a lot more than if surrounded by people who have nothing to do with our objectives.
What is often forgotten is that, knowing what I said above, it’s the little moments that multiply or divide the value.
If you notice, every day and all the time you are faced with two options and choose one over the other. This choice will add or subtract value to what you are in your market.
As a result, even studying, practicing and modeling, we can fail if, in small decisions tohrough out our day we choose things that derive value.
Examples? Here they go:
Right now you are reading this article and, at this point, you have two options:
-Continue reading or
– Leave the page and go do something else.
If you are an independent entrepreneur, or Internet Marketer and if you continue reading this article you can add valuable information to your field of activity in the market.
If you give up and you go do something else that is not so important to your advancement, you’re going to reverse your worth.
At every moment we make a decision between one option and another. There are no decisions without consequences. Everything has a consequence! Every decision and action adds or takes value from you in your market. Choose the criteria of your decisions and learn to surround yourself with favorable options.
Likewise, you can decide to read a page of a book or go to sleep now, you can decide to attend a conference or watch online soap opera, you can like a valuable Facebook page or on a triviality …. (See “Personal Marketing: Your Brand“)
The same is true in all areas of life: Health, Love, Relationships … In every moment we are making decisions that rob us or add value in some area of our life: the decision to make a 20-minute walk or watch the newscast … to do something for someone or leave it for later… many, many examples.
The fact is that the small decisions that give value or derive value are always the results of the options that are before you. When you have to choose between one thing and another, usually both options were put there by yourself, directly or indirectly.
If you’re doing a strict diet and you’re in a pub with friends in considerable pain because you have to choose between drinking water or drinking beer and from eating a salad or shrimp … is clear that it was you who put yourself within that set of options. If you had not gone to the brewery, it could have been another place to decide between drinking water or orange juice, or between a caesar salad dressing or watercress dressing.
So before you are in a complicated situation, where you have to make tough decisions, you can keep making small easier decisions, but you can give yourself options in pairs that, in one way or another, both add value to you.
This way, you can not miss.
When options are: write a book or do a video collection … both are great for your market value.
When you have to choose between staying with an influential person in your market or another, both are fantastic.
When you have to choose between earning x by doing something or earning y by doing something else, both are positive.
Likewise with Health, Love and Relationships. When you place yourself in a position of having to choose between two good things, you can not miss.
This is how I like to bet: with no risk of losing.
I love being in a situation where I can decide to go for the path A or path B and both are fantastic for me to add value in the market.
If I could give you an advice, I would give the following:
If you are in a situation of choice, always choose the one that gives you more value or that has the potential to put you on future options that are both good.
If you are someone who works with internet marketing or who wants to work from home with the Internet, you have two good examples here:
– Choose a link that TAKES value
or
– Act upon the link that will ADD value, like this one.
One day you will choose between a soup and a salad instead of choosing between a hamburger and a plate of Bolognese. You’ll be in a position where you have to choose, not between exercising or not, but between running for half an hour or to run for 15 minutes and swim for another 15 minutes.
Right now you have to decide a lot of things and have lots of options in front of you.
You’ll start comparing options in pairs and play a game of “knock-out” until you have only two. From these two you will make a choice. If you are thinking about postponing decisions, remember: the mere fact of postponing a decision… is a choice in itself. Choosing not to choose is also an option that has an impact as great as any other.
The choices will leave you a line of action and that line from action will leave your future.
We all make decisions that we later assess as “wrong”. But if I learned anything it was this: it is better to make wrong but quick decisions than to spend days deciding “not to decide” and be afraid of making mistakes.