Let me ask you a few questions

While you are walking in the street and you saw a $100 note on the floor will you pick it up?

Next if the $100 note had been crumpled as if a person crumpling a rough paper and throw it to the rubbish bin. Will you still pick it up?

Worst still, if the crumpled $100 note had been step by a foot as if a person to pull off a cigarate. Will you still want pick it up?

Well, I’m not sure about you, but I’m definitely picking it up because I know that $100 note still have a value of $100 regardless of its condition.

If we turn the situation around whereby the $100 note is merely a blank piece of paper? Will you still pick it up? I bet NO! Why? Simply because it's full with wrinkles, dirty and worthless.

Now what is the catch here? If you notice carefully, there’s a common characteristic between these two items, i.e. both are made of paper!

This same goes to us, most individual are given the same set of biological hardware (brain, 5 senses, hands, legs n etc) but we are “valued” very differently in different aspect. Most often at the end of the day we are value by a price tag.

Why I say so? Let me give you a scenario. There are 2 identical twins that work at the same company but one is paid at least 3 times from the other! Well what make their price tag is different from each other? Simply one is $100 note and another is a blank piece of paper. In other words, one able to create values that able to generate huge revenue to the company and the other is not. To the company, the individual is like a long term investment or asset.

Why creating values within ourselves is important? One of the crucial reason is we are living a competitive society that will keep on evolving from time to time. Let me give u a metaphor.

In the following years, these are the popular medium used for music/video industry.

1900 – Gramophone Records
1963 – Cassette Tapes
1983 – Compact Disc, CD
1992 – Mini Disc
1996 – DVD
Present – Blue Ray Disc/ HD-DVD

Notice that each time a new technology is created, it would required lesser time than the previous and the earlier technology will start to obsolete. This same goes to some career that exist in the past that didn’t exist anymore now! So don’t be surprise that the job/expertise/career that we have presently will obsolete in future!

So how do we increase our values? Let me ask you the following.

When is the last time you read a book, newspaper, magazine n etc?
When is the last time you ever attend a course, training n etc?
When is the last time you ever go out and network with different group of ppl?
When is the last time that you dare to do things differently from what you used to do?

Even you are a $100 note now, your value will slowly depreciate as time goes on. The next generations will be more aggressive and willing to work twice harder just to get half of you what you get.

Lastly, the $100 note is merely a blank piece of paper but after being imprint, it make so much difference in values. So you still in a position to imprint yourself to make a difference in your life.

"Live Life to the Fullest" - Ernest Hemingway

Cheers!!!