Often the most important purchases that we make are not with our dollars, but with our time.
The bottom line is that time is more precious than money. You can always get more money, but you can’t get more time. When you spend a day doing something, you have one less day to spend in another way. You can’t exactly “earn” that day back later. This means that you always need to spend your time wisely and get the best value for your time that you can.
You need to remember that you are your own product. Realizing this fact and embracing it is the essence of personal development.
Once I understood the possibilities of personal development, I literally found it difficult to sleep. In fact, for the first year I hardly slept at all. For at that point, I understood a powerful fact: formal education gets you a job, but self-education is what makes you rich!
Achieving wealth and greatness can be distilled down to helping others. Find a way to serve many people. Simply stated, this is what leads to great wealth, great power and great influence.
I have known Zig for nearly fifty years, and he is fond of saying, “If you help enough people get what they want, you can have everything you want.”
How can you make sure that you are invaluable in this new, dynamic and ever-changing 21st-century global marketplace? First, make certain that you have more than one skill. Look at the U.S. auto industry over the last 15 to 20 years. Car manufacturers shut down plants and laid off workers at nearly regular intervals. Those without numerous skills lacked the flexibility to compete. In short, the phenomenon of a specialist who works in the same field and in the same way from the age of 21 to 65 is now a rarity.
A variety of skills mean that you are more flexible and can adapt to the whims of a changing and evolving marketplace. After all, that which does not evolve does not prosper and does not survive. By having numerous skills, you are greatly increasing your value and worth in an ever-changing marketplace. Further, with such a dynamic workplace destined to become the norm, you should strive to keep your current skills sharp and periodically develop new ones. This will give you an important edge and one that will help safeguard against obsolescence.
Get somebody else to do the work, and it’s the beginning of a fortune, pure and simple.
Andrew Carnegie said that he was going to spend the first half of his life earning money and the second half of his life giving it all away. Now that is inspiring! Carnegie got so excited about his goal that he was able to earn about $400 million dollars in the first half of his life, which in those days was an amazing amount of money. Then, true to his word and true to his goal, he spent the second half of his life giving it all away.
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