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How much are you worth?
I don't mean how much are the component parts of you worth - the water and minerals that make up your body (a bit less than a dollar for the raw materials, a bit more if you could sell your working parts).
I mean how much does it say on the invisible price tag that you have hung around your neck.
£10 an hour? £100? £1000?
You are worth exactly as much as you believe you are worth.
My friend Alan is a joiner and cabinet maker. He makes stuff out of wood. Recently he was asked to price up a job that he really didn't want. Rather than turn it down, he simply double his normal rates in the hope that the customer would be put off.
The next day they were on the phone asking him how soon he could start.
THAT made Alan rethink how much he was worth!
Another friend (also called Alan, coincidentally) is a central heating installer. He told me that he normally quoted £900 to fit a new boiler, but recently has been losing jobs to other companies who charge much more. When he started asking why he'd lost the job, the customers told him that they figured the more expensive companies would do a better job.
Dave immediately added £1000 to his standard price and has been booked solid with work ever since.
Mike is a management consultant. He recently decided to increase his hourly rate from £200 to £800. He is still billing exactly the same number of hours but his income has quadrupled - and he reports that his clients are now FAR more likely to do as he recommends.
It happens all around us. People everywhere are undervaluing their worth because they put their own value on themselves instead of the value that their clients and customers would put on them.
Take a look at the value that YOU put on yourself.
Look harder.
Now, whatever that value is, increase it. Live with it. Let that new value sink in to your subconscious.
Then go out into the world and show them what you're worth.
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