So it is the day before pay day…maybe you feel like you are being
rewarded for what you have contributed to the company. Maybe it feels like you are a respectable
citizen of society doing what you are supposed to do. Or maybe you feel like you deserve more and
the company should offer you more.
Whatever your feelings, many people work as if they are robots receiving a check every two weeks.
Here is the problem with that mindset.
Not
Knowing Your Worth
You become comfortable with receiving a
certain amount every two weeks, so you begin to build your life around it.
Your value and worth becomes directly connected to the amount of your
paycheck. The problem with this is that
your worth should be defined from within and not from a check.
When the recession first happened in the US and many experienced
job loss, it was devastating to so many
because people not only lost their job; they felt as if they lost their dignity
and their worth. They became comfortable with allowing a check to define
their worth.
This is a problem because your worth is defined within a period of
two weeks not by goals that have been accomplished. Tangible wealth begins to define you and not
intangible wealth which must come from you defining who you want to become in this world. When you believe you are worth more
than your every two week pay check, you begin to seek more.
You must know your worth.
(Blog topic on Tuesday: How to Know Your Worth)
Short-term
Thinking
I know people that hate their job but they
do extra hours. I do not get it. If your job does not satisfy the core
of your purpose or you have a feeling that there is more out there for you to
do, why would you spend more time there. You do it because you have
become more attached to the check than you have to the value of living the best
and greatest life that you can.
We begin to think about life in terms of
getting paid every two weeks in stead of becoming disciplined in setting long
term goals and waiting for the reward. We have become a society that
searches for the reward immediately, though it may be small, and not dedicated
to a longer process to receive a greater reward, emotionally and financially.
Blocked Vision
I have spoken with many people that will
not work hard at another path because it seems as if money will not come right
away. The late great Jim Rohn stated that the most important hours for
success is what you do after work. The only thing most people see is the
job that is front of them and the check that comes every two weeks. Their
vision is blocked to only see what is being given to them not what they can
build for themselves.
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Think if you would actually go after the life that you have often
dreamed about, the life that has you building the job of your dreams, the life
where you actually get to know the best parts of who you are each day and its
celebrated. Not a life which you are tolerated and you tolerate things just to get a check every two weeks.
A job is great and receiving a check every two weeks is wonderful,
but if you allow that check to cause you to become comfortable with a life that
does not celebrate the totality of what you can become, then that means that
you have become satisfied with the life another has given you. You, my friend,
are worth more than that.
