Sub-Topic: M&M MORE MONEY.
Virtually, everyone's ears prick up when someone doles out ideas on making more money ASAP. Especially if that money can come without a serious amount of more work, less time sleeping and a deep cut into your quality of life. Our cost of living rises all the time with higher rents and prices on everyday living items like gasoline, groceries and consumer goods. But what do we do to help counter those raises?
This is when we need to think about literally raising ourselves first. Boosting your income doesn't happen spontaneously. It's acquired by you, rather than given to you. The key to making more money is less about secrets than it is about reminding ourselves how to be assertive, creative and act like a chess player-someone who thinks three moves in advance.
Never think that you can't ask for more money, but do be ready with a game plan.
First, try to avoid coming from a place of need or want, as in saying "I need (or want) a raise" to your employer and expecting a swift yes. The secret to doing this successfully is to write out what you want to say first, highlighting specific accomplishments and results in the past that have enhanced the company and what you plan to achieve for the company in the future. Have a clear sense of what you want to get, but keep the focus on your employer's company, and what you can do for him/her. Treat the conversation like a sales pitch: you are the seller, and he's/she's the buyer. You're selling your ability to solve more of his/her problems, and with that comes a higher price. It helps to find out what your employer needs in order to make his/her life better, and then try and fill that hole. Let your employer know that you're interested in advancing and that you're committed to doing greater things for the company.
Working some overtime-even just an extra hour a day-can add up to a healthy sum at the end of the year. Special projects, however, can be a brilliant way to use overtime wisely and test entrepreneurial waters while staying right where you are. Being a fully-fledged entrepreneur may not be for everyone, but there may be no better way to find out short of trying it than to become an intrapreneur-an "inside entrepreneur." This gives you the best of both worlds. You act like an entrepreneur within the safe confines of a company. While still technically an employee with access to the resources and capabilities of the larger organization, you often have more flexibility to do things your way and take on a semi-independent creative role aligned with your unique skills and talents. You follow your company's example, but have permission to focus on innovation, transforming a dream or an idea into a profitable venture. Of course, the company benefits mostly from your successes in these pursuits, but you can also become a highly-valued (indispensable) member of the organization's team that is deeply satisfying. Some intrapreneurs can work from home as well as receive all the benefits that an in-house employee would enjoy such as health care, retirement accounts, vacation and sick days. At some point, though, you have to look farther down the road and ask yourself, is this where you want to be a year from now? Five years from now? Consider investigating new companies who will pay you more money to do the same job you're doing today. If you can do some freelance work on the side, you will instantly generate more money today and may even be able to transit to working full time as a freelancer later on. Freelance work can also afford you opportunities to develop new skills and establish longterm business contacts. It can also be a stepping stone for founding your own company at a later date. Your current workplace may keep you feeling comfortable and fulfilled, but if it's not meeting your bills and you know you can make more money down the road, get moving! Remember, if you can go through life like a chess player-strategizing at least three steps in advance-you can get ahead in the game of life and win.
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