Everything Has Value, But How High Is Yours To Yourself?

I was cleaning out a few boxes last week and came across this stack of cards. they seem to have once been in some sort of Rolodex type calendar or something. But these were scattered all over the place in this dusty box from the back of the basement.

Anyway, being the quotation reader kinda guy that I am, I looked through them. Many said the usual stuff like "Be the best you can be," and "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." You know, the usual stuff from years past. (not that that's a bad thing, but I had read many of those before.

Then I came to this one.

"If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise the price."

It got me thinking first about all of discussions writers have about writing for free when you are just starting out. Should you do it? Should you volunteer your mad word writing skills just to get a few clips? Will folks expect it out of you all the time? What will this then do for the profession? When will you ever get paid what you are worth?

But this same sort of thing should relate to all of us in whatever we are doing. Questions such as...

How much is my time worth?
Is what I am doing now adding value?
Will doing this or that help me later on to do these and those?

If you can see a larger benefit later on, then you may want to think about it. But if there is nothing in it for you, unless it just makes you feel good that you contributed to something you are passionate about, you might want to look at something else.

Remember that you have value to yourself first. It's up to you what you are worth in the long run. But it doesn't hurt to earn more right now if you can.


--David

David Stoddard
The Unmotivated Motivational Writer
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