(bright electronic music) - We all desire
to make more money,
to increase our net worth,
to achieve wealthy status.
But often we get stuck,
we don't know what actions to take,
we don't know what that first step is,
we don't know how to invest or where to invest
our money, our time and our resources.
What if I could tell you,
though, that there is actually a way
that you can increase your personal worth by 50%
and it doesn't take a lot of work.
But this isn't coming from me,
this is actually coming from a very,
well-respected billionaire that had some really great advice
on how you can increase your worth by 50%
and you'll be quite surprise to know how easy it is.
Let's find out who this billionaire is
and how you can increase your worth by 50% right now.
So chances are you heard of this guy
by the name of Warren Buffett.
He's the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway,
he's reportedly worth over 84 billion,
that's right, billion dollars.
And typically when Warren speaks, people listen.
When you achieved that level of success,
that level of wealth, you have some amazing experienced,
some amazing wisdom to share and recently he was in the car
with the CEO of the new StartApp
and the CEO was just asked him like,
"What is just one simple thing that people can do
"to increase their worth?"
Like what are the things that you will suggest that they do?
And the thing that Warren's said
is something that I 100% agree with
and is something that you and I can do on our own
or we can buy books or we can listen to podcast
to work on this craft, this skill
that can increase your worth by 50% or more.
So the simple piece of advice
that Warren offered on what he believe
that you can increase your worth by 50% is this,
work on improving your communication skills
both verbally and written.
So just communicating,
how do you communicate with your peers,
to your co-workers,
to your competitors,
to your future clients?
How do you send them emails,
how do you write lenders,
how do you write articles?
Learning communication is such a simple thing,
but many of us don't put the work in to get better.
Especially in this generation,
we want to send text messages,
because that's the easy thing to do.
We don't wanna have this face-to-face conversations
and look people in the eye and communicate with them
and this is an art and a skill that is getting lost.
So if you can learn how to master communication,
you can increase your worth by 50% or more
if you learn how to do it right.
Though, I love Warren's advice,
but I'm also a big believer in action steps,
like what are things that you can do today
to improve your communication skills
or work towards improving your communication skills.
So what I wanna share is what are my four top tips
on how you can increase your worth
by increasing your communication skills.
All right, the first thing that you can do
is shut up and listen.
We talk way too much.
We wanna talk about ourselves and how great we are,
all of the things about our day
and you may have some really good information to share,
but communication works two ways.
You have to be able to communicate, talk
and you have to be able to receive that information, listen.
And if you're on the talking side of things,
where you're never listening
to the person you're trying to communicate with,
then that is not open communication.
- Hello, Selma.
Selma my dear, how are you?
Listen, shut up for a second.
- A good communicator won't take the time
to shut their mouth and listen,
or just asking the right question
and letting that person go through
wherever they need to go through to get that answer.
Shutting up and listening will improve your communication,
because people think that you care,
they think you're actually listening
and you're interested in what they have to offer.
To that point,
I really love this quote by John Marshall that says,
"To listen well is as powerful a means of communication
"and influence as to talk well."
You've got to listen, you've got to open your ears
and listen with that person has to say.
That is a simple way to increase your communication skills.
The second way that you can improve
your communication skills is to become a better storyteller.
One of my favorite parts of my evening
is talking all my kids into bed,
especially my youngest, my daughter.
She's four years old and she loves
when I take the time to read her a book.
Even though she has no idea what I'm reading,
it's just that process of sitting down and telling a story.
We all love to hear stories.
When you can tell a story that captivates the audience,
because they hear the main character,
they hear the beginning of that story
and they want to know how it ends.
They wanna know how it finishes.
Just like any movie you've ever seen,
when you start a movie so hard to not finish it,
because you want to know how the story ends.
So if you can become a better storyteller
in whatever it is that you're offering.
So if you're on a sales call,
being able to tell a story to that potential clients
so that they are engage, so that they wanna know.
Anything and everything about that story
is such a powerful tool.
Donald Miller who is well-known for his book
and process called StoryBrand
had this to say about storytelling,
"Everybody wants to be taken somewhere.
"If we don't tell people where we're taking them,
"then they'll engage in another brand."
Mastering the art of storytelling will allow customers
and people that you're trying to communicate with,
just be that much more engage.
Work on telling better stories,
make it fun, make it engaging.
All right, the third thing that you can do
to improve your communication skills
is take a public speaking class.
Now if you're still in school, signing up for speech
or any sort of class that requires you
to get in front of a room of people and talk
is an experience that many can't handle,
it's so nerve-wracking, you get so much anxiety,
but if you can learn to get in front of a crowd and speak
and speak with confidence, people will listen.
I know several advisers that I used to work with
that they will sign up for toastmasters
just so that they can get more comfortable speaking
in front of people.
In a previous video, I talked about the best class
I took in college which was a sales class.
Why that was the best class,
because a part of that class,
one of the major assignments
which I had to give a taped sales presentation
and I'd never had anything like that before,
but having to give a sales speech
and recorded was so nerve-wracking,
but it made me such a better communicator,
because I had to learn how to talk,
I had to learn how slow down,
take a deep breath and make sure
that the person I was engaged with
was really there and it was such a great experienced.
All right, the fourth and final thing you can do
to improve your communication skills is to start a blog.
Now do you have to start a blog and work on all
like the technical aspect of getting that blog on,
it's absolutely not.
You can start a free blog,
you can start a blog like on LinkedIn,
you can start writing a longer blog post on Facebook
or any social media platform.
But the whole point in doing this is to write something
that people actually want to read.
When I start my blog over 10 years ago,
I thought I was a decent writer,
but quickly learned that writers have a certain skill
that I didn't have and the only way
that I was able to improved upon that was writing more.
And also looking at other blogs that were very popular,
just seeing how the format was,
how do they tell their story,
how do they craft,
just the paragraphs and the sentence structure
and just all the different things that goes into writing
a short or even a long-form blog post.
And by doing that, that help me improve my writing skills
that I didn't really think need to improve,
but turns out I was wrong, I was very wrong.
And by writing all these blog content over the years,
its help me so much better
to become a much more detailed communicator
and that people can actually listen and resonate well.
So many people want the quick fix,
the easy fix to increase their net worth,
to increase their wealth.
But often times we overlook the simple things
that we can do and more he know it exactly,
he know exactly what people needed to do
and that was to increase their communication.
What are ways that you've been able
to increase your communication skills with others
or what are some the biggest pet peeves that you have
whenever you're talking with someone,
you recognize that this person,
they don't know how to communicate,
like this drives me insane.
I know for me personally,
it's those that are on their cellphones
and they don't even make eye contact with you
when they're talking with you like that drives me crazy.
So that's the my pet peeve when it comes to communication.
What is yours?
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This is Jeff Rose reminding you once again,
it is your money, it's your life
and only you can make it awesome.
Until next time, peace.