Strategies For Increasing Self-Worth
We talked before about increasing your income by getting what you are worth. No doubt plenty of you left thinking that is easier said than done. If it was that easy to convince your boss to give you that much-deserved raise, you’d have done it already, right? I hear what you are saying, but wealth creation does rely on your ability to access that all-important seed money for investment. And a great number of people have easy access to cash right at their fingertips—if they’d just be confident enough to get what they are worth.
This really goes back to the issue of mindset and determination; if you have the mindset of success, wealth creation will follow. If you know your own worth and believe in it, you will find financial success. If you are determined to improve your life through wealth creation, you will put in the effort to get all that you are worth.
Recognizing, however, that it can seem impossible to tap that worth, Jamie McIntyre has led the way. His method for increasing wealth by tapping self-worth is simple and straightforward.
Prove your worth
Many people have a small idea of what they are worth, but no real research to back them. Research, though, is no more difficult than a job hunt.
Take your credentials to other companies and see what they are willing to offer you. Compare that to what you are getting now, and then go to your own boss with the offers. In many cases, a company will sooner step up to the plate and give what they should be giving before they will lose a good employee to the competition (especially now that they know what you can do for that company).
Don’t go in haste, go with a plan. Try to get three offers to back you up. Show that your skills are valuable, that you are willing to move on, and also throw in some bit about the value that you add and can continue to add to your current company.
In the business world, pay increases go to those who ask for them. But yours will be better still if you do more than ask—prove your worth! Prove your worth (even though your company probably already knows), show that you have options, and be prepared to move towards those options if your current employer won’t match your terms.
You’ll know just where you stand in terms of worth and valuation. That’s an important lesson to learn on the path to wealth creation.
Sean Rasmussen
Wealth Creation Blog
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June 12th, 2008 at 11:08 am
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