In the face of money, make yourself more valuable

Everyone is making money, but not everyone is worth it.

Making money and being valuable are two different things, which of these two is more important? Making money is an external short-term behavior, but being valuable is an intrinsic long-term consequence. What will make money is not necessarily valuable, and what can be earned is limited, but it is only a matter of how much. The valuable can surpass the money, nature can produce money, and the snowball is getting bigger and bigger. The more you care about money, the less you can make a lot of money. The less you care about money, the more you have a chance to make a lot of money.

Usually, the province is the province, and the "care" here refers to the unordered rigid cutting of small money. Usually, those who should be generous must be generous, and the "don't care" here refers to the informality of the pattern. Many young people advocate the saying: "The more you are willing to spend money, the more you can make a lot of money." This is actually a psychological comfort for advanced consumption. This seemingly reasonable sentence is only half right, and not all people who are willing to spend money can make a lot of money. In reality, the more people who can spend money, the less money they end up. Most of these people only enjoy the present moment and lack the preparation for the uncertainty of the future.

The more capable people are, the more profitable they will be. The more valuable people are, the more they will make money. Where your money is spent, your heart is. If money is spent on visible and worthless substances, there is no point in spending more money. Buy at most a pain, buy a mood. Your assets don't appreciate by spending a lot of money, they depreciate more and more. If money is spent on things that are invisible and can bring real value, it makes a lot of sense to spend even the smallest amount of money. Your assets will not depreciate because they cost small amounts of money, but will increase in value more and more.

In this ever-changing world, you must have a skill to ensure that you can survive in any environment. As long as you can continue to practice for 10,000 hours in any field, it is easy to exceed 80% of your peers. Whether it is skills in the field of life (such as hairdresser, pastry chef, chef, etc.), or professional knowledge skills (such as accountants, lawyers, doctors, etc.), or creative skills (such as designers, architects, painters, etc.), or resource integration skills (such as entrepreneurs, investors, entrepreneurs, etc.). For most ordinary people, sometimes "being able to speak" and "being able to write" is a special skill and talent.

The penniless woman who had been kicked out of the house by her husband finally chose to divorce and ended her marriage, and spent about 9 months receiving behavioral awareness therapy. Later, the failed single mother who wrote novels and was rejected consecutively reluctantly applied for a government grant, receiving $103.50 a week. During this period, she worked as a secretary and taught English, and even in the midst of despair, she has always insisted on writing and has never given up. Finally, it took about 5 years to write the world-famous bestseller "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone". She is the British writer J• K. Rowling.

As of 2015, the Harry Potter series of novels has been translated into more than 70 languages and has been distributed in 800 million copies worldwide. Since then, Rowling has gone from a poor and obscure "Cinderella" to the richest writer who enjoys honor and has more assets than the Queen of England. No one wants his life to be miserable, and even if he earns a meager salary, he always looks forward to seeing the light of day. In the lowest years of her life, Rowling chose to hide herself, trying to make herself more valuable, and eventually became the most valuable female writer in the world, worth $1 billion.

Writing is a brain-burning job and a thankless profession. Nowadays, the low royalties, the semi-annual settlement period, plus many publishers in the industry who conceal circulation, and other catty behaviors, etc., are not good for writers. Therefore, most of the writers who rely on writing for a living often have a tight life, and their families are surrounded by walls and hunger and cold. A writer who can perfectly combine daily life with his words can embody the right values and at the same time have a positive impact on people. He will be able to break through the hard code money, form his own core influence value, and finally have a strong IP and discourse power.

When your influence exceeds money and your personal value is fully reflected, you are already out of the embarrassing situation of survival. From then on, money wasn't enough to measure your worth. No matter what industry you are in and what skills you have, becoming a valuable person is the best way to make money.

Someone may say, "I can't write, I don't do the tall mental work, I just do some physical work." In fact, any kind of work is not a problem, let alone an excuse and reason for not making money. Paul, a young brother in the UK, began working as a car wash apprentice at the age of 13 and founded his own car wash company in 2003. This company is up and down by himself, both as a boss and an employee, all of which are done by one person. Now that he has been washing cars for 30 years, he has finally become famous all over the world. Celebrities/rich people/celebrities all over the world are willing to line up to send money to him, just to let him wash his car, charging 50,000 yuan at a time.

The same is the car wash to make money, why can the British brother put such a low-end industry, to do so high-end? Paul washes the car in 61 steps, ranging from three days to two weeks. He used a fully enclosed workshop, hanging two rows of 7,000-watt lights just to remove every flaw. When washing the body, he will adjust the high-pressure water column with different pressures according to the different models. In order to prevent water stains from entering the interior of the car, all gaps in the car body are glued with special waterproof glue. When cleaning the wheels and tires, he also removes every wheel.

The time before these car washes alone is enough to wash dozens of cars in a traditional car wash shop. When washing the car, paul is often seen squatting or kneeling, and there is not enough love to make these movements. Every dead end of the engine is cleaned up and must be dealt with. When these steps are completed, he will also take out a portable microscope and scan every detail of the body to ensure that there is no damage to the body. If there is a suspected injury, he will also perform a second cleaning or repair. Finally, if the water falls on the body, it can show a feeling of sliding and jumping, and the whole car can be truly washed.

For so many years, Paul has long been no longer a simple car washer, more like a car life is miserable, even if he earns a meager salary, he always looks forward to the light of day. In the lowest years of her life, Rowling chose to hide herself, trying to make herself more valuable, and eventually became the most valuable female writer in the world, worth $1 billion.

Over the years, Paul has long since ceased to be a simple car washer, more like an automotive engineer who understands every structure of a car. And from his gentle attitude to the car with his hands, you can feel the respect for the owner of the car, and the devotion to his career. For Paul, this pursuit of extreme details and a dedicated attitude of love become the most valuable core and the most valuable place.

Before complaining that you make too little money, learn to make yourself worthwhile. If you want to make yourself more valuable, the most important thing is to continuously improve your core values from material to spiritual, from inside to outside. If you don't believe in effort and time, then time will fail you first. Don't deny your past, it's all intangible and precious. Don't use your past to implicate your future, because the future is no longer limited by the past. It is not to see hope to persist, but to persist to see hope.

Make your every minute worth more, rather than trading more money for time. How to make yourself more valuable? Learn to improve professional knowledge and skills, learn to improve learning and critical thinking ability. Learn to improve interpersonal skills, learn to improve personality cultivation charm. Insist on reading for an hour a day instead of sticking to the drama for an hour. Insist on exercising for an hour a day instead of snoozing for an hour.

Only by changing your attitude can you change the height of your life. More important than making money is to make yourself more valuable.