Being valuable gets more value in the World.

In today’s life you find yourself that you are compensated not by how hard you work but how much value you add to the world around you. Everyone is ready to pay you more if you are valuable to them. The monetary reward you receive is determined not by how long you work but by how much value you add. This is the reason a heart surgeon is paid so much more than a McDonald’s employee. Is the heart surgeon a hard worker? May be not. Is the heart surgeon smarter? Who knows? But one thing is certain: the heart surgeon has accumulated far more specialized knowledge and specific know-how than the McDonald’s employee.

There are only few people who can do what the heart surgeon does and as a result, the heart surgeon is perceived as far more valuable to the marketplace. This is why the heart surgeon is paid over 20 times more than the person who flips burgers. Money simply becomes a symbol for how much value each person has added to the world at large. As diamond gets always high bid after paring or trimming.

So to be paid more money in your work, you must add more value to the world. And the best way to begin adding value to the world is to start becoming a more valuable person. Get the skills no one else has. Read books no one else is reading. Think thoughts no one else is thinking. Or, to put it another way, you cannot have all that you want if you remain the same person as you are.  To get more from life, you need to be more in life.