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Should Money Be The Primary Motivation For Your Work?
My sincere apologies to everyone for the delay in posting the audio clip and now this posting. You see I have been challenged by long distance numbers always giving me the "busy signal" since Saturday, August 26, 2006. As such, I decided today not to wait for the signals and thus I have posted the techniques in this way. My apologies once again
As we have been discussing in other chapters, although the social aspect of work is important, for many people the salary they get is viewed as an objective measure of how much they are valued by their employers. Furthermore, it also reflects how one values himself/herself. The amount of money earned at work can be linked with our own sense of self-worth.
Whatever be your answer to this question, I hope the following techniques will give you further in-sight.
1. If we choose an external marker as the measure of our inner worth, whether it is the amount of money we make, others' opinion of us or the success of some project etc., sooner or later we're bound to be battered by life's inevitable changes.
2. Money comes and goes, and thus is an unstable source of self-esteem, an unreliable foundation upon which to build our identity.
3. Though the purpose of making money at work is to provide ourselves and our family with the means to accomplish something - a living, it is important to remember that money by itself is only a piece of paper.
4. As a piece of paper, it is worth very little. It is the value that we as a society agree to give it that makes it valuable.
5. Money does not give you genuine power.
6. Genuine power results from the respect that people give you. Real power has to do with one's ability to influence the hearts and minds of others.
7. Power based on one's wealth is artificial, it is only on the surface and is not lasting.
8. There is a lot of research conducted into the correlation between money and happiness. And even though it is clear that real happiness has very little to do with money, there still seems to be that sense in society that we would be happier if we were rich.
9. Yes, money is important, but there are also other factors equally or probably more important for one's sense of well-being.
10. It is the state of mind and the means by which you create wealth that seems to be more important.
11. As such, it is our attitude about money that is more important than the amount we make.
Should Money Be The Primary Motivation For Your Work?
My sincere apologies to everyone for the delay in posting the audio clip and now this posting. You see I have been challenged by long distance numbers always giving me the "busy signal" since Saturday, August 26, 2006. As such, I decided today not to wait for the signals and thus I have posted the techniques in this way. My apologies once again
As we have been discussing in other chapters, although the social aspect of work is important, for many people the salary they get is viewed as an objective measure of how much they are valued by their employers. Furthermore, it also reflects how one values himself/herself. The amount of money earned at work can be linked with our own sense of self-worth.
Whatever be your answer to this question, I hope the following techniques will give you further in-sight.
1. If we choose an external marker as the measure of our inner worth, whether it is the amount of money we make, others' opinion of us or the success of some project etc., sooner or later we're bound to be battered by life's inevitable changes.
2. Money comes and goes, and thus is an unstable source of self-esteem, an unreliable foundation upon which to build our identity.
3. Though the purpose of making money at work is to provide ourselves and our family with the means to accomplish something - a living, it is important to remember that money by itself is only a piece of paper.
4. As a piece of paper, it is worth very little. It is the value that we as a society agree to give it that makes it valuable.
5. Money does not give you genuine power.
6. Genuine power results from the respect that people give you. Real power has to do with one's ability to influence the hearts and minds of others.
7. Power based on one's wealth is artificial, it is only on the surface and is not lasting.
8. There is a lot of research conducted into the correlation between money and happiness. And even though it is clear that real happiness has very little to do with money, there still seems to be that sense in society that we would be happier if we were rich.
9. Yes, money is important, but there are also other factors equally or probably more important for one's sense of well-being.
10. It is the state of mind and the means by which you create wealth that seems to be more important.
11. As such, it is our attitude about money that is more important than the amount we make.
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