When you understand that,
that's when you have the potential to create great wealth
for yourself and to achieve the things that you want in your career and to get
paid your worth. How
to get paid your worth in your career?
The little known secrets to getting paid your worth and
it's really not what you think.
My name is Grace and I'm host of the Career Revisionist Podcast and
founder of Master Insights where I help savvy professionals to create careers of
significance and expand that into living a life of fulfillment. Now,
how many years have you been working in your career
and how many times have you thought to yourself or said to yourself that you
don't feel that you're getting paid your worth and as a result,
you kind of feel under appreciated and under valued in your company? I mean,
I've said that to myself many times.
I remember working in careers and in positions where I felt that my
responsibilities kept growing.
You know, I applied for this position,
I got this position where there was something that was expected
of me in the beginning. And as the years progress in that company,
more responsibilities came on,
more projects I was taken on and I felt that I wasn't getting paid my worth.
So today that's what I wanted to share with you about these little known secrets
on making sure that you get paid your worth no matter what.
And it works every single time. So let's talk about money.
And I know there are some cultures and maybe some,
some people who have a hard time talking
about money because it's a sensitive topic.
So let's put that aside and talk about money. It's just me and you.
So I'm just talking to you about money.
If you look at money, money in and of itself, it's not worth anything.
Some countries, money is made of paper.
In other countries it is made of plastic. So in and of itself,
the material of money, you know, you're holding it in your hand,
it is actually worthless. The only reason why money has value,
whatever that value of the number printed on that bill.
The only reason why it has that value is because people agree that it does.
And another thing that we agree on is that money is going to
be the unit of exchange, the unit that we use to buy things. And,
and it's also going to be a measure
of our wealth and because of these agreements,
that's the only reason why money has value.
So let's look just for a brief moment,
I'm not going to bore you with a lot of history,
but let's look for a brief moment on the history of money, let's say currency,
because before paper money was invented, before it ever existed our ancestors,
people, societies before us,
they use a system called bartering where they traded items that they had a
surplus of, for items that they needed, right?
So they would carry these heavy objects, exchanging them with other people,
and they bartered for the things that they needed, right? So it was surplus,
traded for things that they needed.
And that was that was currency back then for bartering.
And then later on that got a little bit tedious
and later on societies evolved and they had metal objects.
They would shape these objects out of metal and that would be the currency.
That would be money, right? And of course evolution,
the history of money changed again into money that we know it today and now
today with the invention of paper money,
it's easy to carry around and it has become the accepted measure of wealth
and that unit of measure around the world.
So if you really think about this history,
and of course it is a very birds eye view of the history,
it is a 30,000 foot view of the history of money.
There's a lot more detail than that. But if you look at money itself,
it really has stood the test of time.
It has evolved of course to different materials, different sizes,
different shapes. But it has stood the test of time. So why,
why did money stand the test of time?
The reason why that it did is because of the world.
And the world revolves around value. So in a career, in your career path,
what you are doing is you are trading your value for someone else's value.
Let me expand on that.
The value that you had that you're trading is your skills, your knowledge,
your experience, the value of your experiences.
Those are the things that make up your value.
You're trading those things for someone else's value. In other words,
they pay you for it.
So the value that they are are exchanging in return to your value is money.
They're paying you for your value. So money, the money that you earn,
getting paid your worth, that is all about exchanging value,
value exchange. The greater value you can give,
the greater value that you can command for it,
and the greater value that other people see that you can give,
the more value they will offer you for it. So it goes back to bartering, right?
The reason why bartering works is because they want what you have.
They need what you are about to change for what you have.
So the same thing is true in your career.
When you understand that that's when you have the potential to create great
wealth for yourself and to
achieve the things that you want in your career and to get paid your worth.
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My first job ever in my life was working in a restaurant. I was a waitress,
I was a cashier and I was also the dishwasher and I did all those other tasks as
well. At that time I was a minor. You know,
I started working in this restaurant when I was 11 years old.
I wasn't paid a salary, but I was paid my worth. You know,
if you think about it, I didn't have a skills. I didn't have knowledge,
you know, I was just a kid, you know. So at that time,
the value that I could exchange was just cleaning tables, washing the dishes,
and also settling the bills from the customers.
And then as time went on, by that time,
the next job I had was out of high school.
You know, I was doing some odd jobs as well.
I was working in a golf club and I got paid minimum wage.
In high school, my knowledge compared to when I was 11,
my skills have expanded a little bit. I have a little bit more knowledge.
I'm a little bit more mature because now I'm a teenager compared
to 11 years old, but I am paid minimum wage.
Is there a chance that I could ask for more than minimum wage? Well, no,
because of the value that I have to exchange. That was the limit of my value,
you know? And then later on, as time wears on,
after I graduated with my PhD in Neuroscience,
now my skills have really expanded.
Now I have specialized knowledge in one subject area.
You know I have work experience,
I have a vast knowledge in neuroscience and in health care,
so then I could command a lot more from my income compared to back then,
to compared to five years ago, especially compared to when I was in high school.
So do you mind if I get really honest with you right now?
So if you're asking yourself and you have these questions,
I want to get paid my worth, how do I get paid my worth?
Here's my question to you. Have you ever considered that you already
are getting paid your worth? And it's really hard pill to swallow.
Sometimes the truth can be painful, but you have to be brutally honest with you,
with yourself. You have to be brutally honest with yourself and
give yourself that permission to really reflect on what's really true and what
isn't.
Because that's the only way that you can get ahead is if you are honest with
yourself about what's true
about your current situation and how that differs from where you want to be.
So if you want to get paid more,
if you want to have a greater income compared to what it is currently,
then you have to create more value.
You have to be able to be the person to do the things,
to give more value in exchange for money. And the quicker,
and the sooner that you can understand that,
the sooner that you can get paid more and have the income that you desire.
People will only pay you more money, pay you more income
depending on the value that you can give them. In other words,
the problem that you can solve for them.
And the only opinion that matters is the opinion of the marketplace.
So what is your marketplace? What industry are you working in?
And that's the marketplace that you serve.
Doesn't mean that you are in customer service,
it doesn't mean that you're a sales representative,
but whatever your job function is in any organization,
you are serving an industry. As an organization you are serving an industry.
So the right way to think about it is what the marketplace
is willing to pay for the value that you can give.
So it's prudent if you've got really clear on what problems
you can solve and what that marketplace or that industry or that employer,
that organization, what problems do they have that they need a solution for.
And the truth is that some people don't make
a lot of money because they aren't producing a lot of value according to what
the marketplace requires of them.
There's a wonderful quote that I love from Zig Ziglar and he said that "you can
get anything you want in life if you help enough people to get what they want."
And the same thing is true in your career.
If you help enough people to get what they want by adding value
to them by solving their problems, that you can have what you want in your life.
So you see,
if you've had this notion that it's wrong or it's unethical or that is
unprofessional to ask for more money and to get paid your worth,
then it's not true because it is a noble thing to make more money.
It is noble thing to exchange your value for money. It's very noble,
because as zig Ziglar said,
the reason why that's happening is because you are helping enough people to get
the things that they want, right? So it's heart-centered, it's service-based.
So first of all,
ask yourself is there something within
you that is preventing you from having the income and earning the income that
you want and that you desire? And is internal, right?
If that is a self-limiting, a self-imposed belief,
then just know that it is noble if you are approaching it from
a service-based, from a heart-centered perspective.
You see most people don't think like this and it's hurting their confidence.
I mean, you've been conditioned, we've all been conditioned by society,
by authority figures, by the education system that if you were,
if you're starting out,
you're expected to pay minimum wage and then you work at that,
the next job that you get some time
and some experience with more knowledge later,
then you get paid more than minimum wage and
then maybe you finished college and then you get paid a little bit more.
And then what happens from that thinking,
from that line of thinking is that most people start to think that your income
and your salary increase is linear, and it's based on time.
So in other words, the more time you are in the workforce,
the more you get paid. And that is simply not true.
You can work as hard as you want in a particular career path and it doesn't mean
that it's going to lead to more income. Time is not the factor, right?
So this way of thinking trains you to think that your income grows
with time and it grows with seniority or grows with anything that is related to
time, but it doesn't. The only thing that grows your income,
the only things that assures you that you get paid your worth.
and you get paid the income that you desire is if you provide more value,
and you provide the value that's important in that marketplace.
So the way that you continue to grow your income is to become a
person of more value. So in other words, you're becoming a person of value.
You have to become that person of value in order to do the things that you do,
that you need to do,
in order to have the income that you desire.
And please note I'm not talking about intrinsic value here, right?
As human beings, as a living human being, you have intrinsic value.
Everybody has intrinsic value.
That's not what I'm talking about when I say becoming a person of value,
I'm referring to the skills, the knowledge, the expertise,
the experiential value, all of that potential that you're exchanging for money,
right? Intrinsic value is a different animal. It's a different thing. And,
that's not what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about value in terms of the value you bring to an industry
marketplace. So what I'm talking about, there's two steps.
The first one is first, how to develop your skill stack
so that you become valuable to the marketplace and irreplaceable.
And the second step is to communicate that value in ways that the marketplace
will know what you have to offer.
So maybe you're listening to this video and you're thinking to yourself, well,
how do I increase my value? If you're wondering more,
I have the perfect thing for you. I've created a four day training.
It's a free training. So just go to careerrevisionist. com/training
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So just go to that for a training on how you can become a greater person of
value and command the income that you desire, and the income that you deserve.