Quest for a higher pay: A Matter of Attitude

A lot of my fellow employees believe that to have a higher income, we have to be at the mercy of outside forces - the boss, the wage scale, the recession, the poor local economy, the presidents economic policy and all other reasons.

This is the attitude of always looking for other people/reasons to blame for their circumstances. If you will always be looking for other people to blame and feeling sorry for yourself, you certainly fail to see a lot of opportunities that come your way.

Once you learn to change your attitude towards your work, you will experience a transformation of your performance in your job. Your attitude of being an employee will change to become more of an entrepreneur. Whenever you are working, you are working for your self.

The attitude that you show in your work will reflect the quantity and quality of your work, in your interactions with employers and fellow employees and your fearfulness about your job security.

But how do we change these kind of attitude? To do these one must cultivate a positive attitude of self-respect, pride in your contribution to your workplace, dedication to your job, cooperation with your employers and coworkers, desire to do the the job right, personal integrity, responsibility and accountability- commit to a 100% excellence.

These integrity and the increased quality and productivity of your work will easily qualify you for a pay raise (Your money or your life by Vicki Robin & Joe Dominguez).

Hence, there are times that you don't need to ask your employers to give you a pay raise, you certainly attract it and have it.

At the end of the day.. A job well done - does no other good but to the man who does it.

                                                           Happy Pay Raise

Aside from doing good on your job we must also realize that we need to increase our value as an individual.
What I did is I join the Truly Rich Club, of Bo Sanchez as my means to open myself to other forms of financial increases.

Wealth Strategy: Rich people choose to get paid based on results.

Rich people choose to get paid based on results. Poor people choose to get paid based on time.
Source: Secrets of Millionaire Mind by Harv T. Eker

There is nothing wrong with receiving a steady pay check. The only  consequences that you will be denied with the opportunity to earn even more if you choose to get paid based on results.

Poor people prefer to get paid based on time. They are afraid, they want the security of knowing that they will receive this amount of money at the end of the required time.

Poor people settle on earning just enough for them to survive and be comfortable. Rich people choose to get paid based on produce, on commission. They choose stock options than high salaries.

In the financial world the rewards are usually proportionate to the risks. Rich people believe in themselves.

Poor people trade their time for money. the problem with these is that your time is limited so that means that your income will also be limited.

I encourage everyone to have their own business, be it full time or part time.  Majority of millionaires became rich by being in their own business.

Selling is one of the worlds highest paid professions

Rich people admire other rich people

Wealth Strategy: Rich people admire other rich and successful people. Poor people resent rich and succesful people.

Quoted from T. Harv Eker's Book Secrets of the Millionaire Mind that based on the Huna wisdom the original teachings of the Hawaiian elders "bless that which you want". If you see a successful, rich and healthy person bless them, admire them.

That is why the rich is getting richer and the poor getting poorer because the rich attract more of what they already have and the poor is being dragged to more of what they already in. Some Poor people looks at the rich with resentment and jealousy. At some point they hated the rich because they thought that rich people are bad people. There people who got their riches from bad ways but they are only very few, most rich people got their riches from good ways.

I here quote Russell H. Conwell's story in his book Acres of Diamond

I say that you ought to get rich, and it is your duty to get rich.
how many of my pious brethren say to me, "Do you, a Christian minister, spend your time going up and down the country advising young people to get rich, to get money? yes, of course I do.


They say, "isn't that awful! Why don't you preach the gospel instead of preaching about man's making money?" Because to make money honestly is to preach the gospel. that is the reason. the men who get rich may be the most honest men you find in the community.


"Oh," but says some young man here tonight, "I have been told all my life that if a person has money he is very dishonest and dishonorable and mean and contemptible." My friend, that is the reason you have none, because you have that idea of people. The foundation of your faith is altogether false. Let me say clearly..... ninety-eight out of one hundred of the rich men (and women) of America are honest. that is why they are rich. that is why they are trusted with money. That is why they carry on great enterprises and find plenty of people to work with them.


Says another young man, "I hear sometimes of men that get millions of dollars dishonestly." Yes, of course you do, and so do I. but they are so rare a thing in fact the newspapers talk about them all the time as a matter of news until you get the idea that all the rich men got rich dishonestly.


My friend, you.... drive me.... out into the suburbs of Philadelphia, and introduce me to people who own their homes around this great city, so beautiful homes with gardens and flowers, these magnificent homes so lovely in their art, and I will introduce you to the very best people in character as well  as in enterprise in our city.... they that own their homes are made more honorable and honest and pure, and true and economical and careful, by owning them.


We preach against covetousness ... in the pulpit... and use the terms.... "filthy lucre" so extremely that Christians get the idea that .... it is wicked for any man to have money. Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it! You ought because you can do more good with it than you can without it. money printed your bibles, money builds your churches, money sends your missionaries, and pays your preachers.... I say, then you ought to have money. If you can honestly attain unto riches... it is your ... godly duty to do so. it is an awful, mistake of these pious people to think you must be awfully poor in order to be pious.


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