- Assess, manage, and increase your market value
- Benchmark your value to your target marketplace; value = compensation
- Identify the results you can produce and the contributions you can make
- Identify and leverage the skills, abilities and qualities that make you uniquely valuable as an employee, associate or business partner
- Identify your differential factor(s) that distinguishes you from others and makes you unique
- Consistently demonstrate the “WOW!” factor to deliver more value than expected
- Continuously enhance your marketability by preparing for perpetual improvement and self reinvention (formal/informal education)
- Generate financial sustainability
- Clearly understand what you need to make to make ends meet and what you need to make to achieve your desired standard of living
- Learn to live within your means and do so with discipline
- Realize that your desired standard of living is inseparable from your career choices
- Consider multiple streams of income and reignite the spirit of entrepreneurialism
- Save aggressively and invest wisely; put more money in your bank account
- Create a long-term, financial plan to arrive where you want to arrive; because the future will arrive before you know it