Life Will Pay Whatever You Ask It To Pay

I worked for a menial’s hire,
Only to learn dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have willingly paid.

~ Jessie B Rittenhouse

I am reading a great book that was recommended to me – Secrets of Six- Figure Women by Barbara Stanny.  These common threads are not just unique to women.

Barbara was given the idea by a good friend to interview women who were earning six-figures and more to determine what they had in common, if anything.  She didn’t really want to do it, because she thought she would be talking with high earning women who were cold, tough, aloof, hard-driven, designer dressed who could never relate to a poorly paid writer.  What she found was pretty remarkable and not what she expected when she began her journey.

Early in her interviewing them, she wanted to find out what drives them to succeed, she asked them the question “What drives you to work so hard to succeed?”

Their answers were varied, but here are just a few of them:

•          College professor: “To be economically sage, to have enough money to take care of myself.”
•          Management consultant: “To do interesting things to feel good about what I am doing.”
•          Financial educator: “To wake up and really want to work.”
•         Corporate executive: “To be recognized for doing a good job.”
•         Interior decorator: “To be famous, to have people know who I am.”
•         Investment banker: “To be in a challenging, exciting environment.”
•         Marketing consultant: “To be comfortable enough to care for myself and help others.”

Each of them had a different value of what was important for them, but the outcome for all of them is tremendous success both financially and achieving what is important to them and that is what drives them.

“If you want to be truly successful, focus on fulfilling your values and financial gain will follow.”

What do you value the most in how it relates to your success?  Only you can answer that question, but if you can really tap into that, your success can increase exponentially.  I challenge you to really find what your core value is that will drive your success to the next level.  You have the power to achieve whatever you want, but you need to have a vision for your life based on cherished values, when you do then money becomes a by-product.