Money: The 5 Big YOU Questions

It’s your life...
and it’s all about you.

Take a moment and think about what you want for your life. Here are 5 simple questions about your financial life.

The only one who needs to be satisfied with your answers to these questions is you. 

1. How long have you been working in your job? Are you making progress or are you stuck?
2. How much are you making? Are you making what you really need to be making? Are you making what you're worth? Is more coming?
3. How much are you saving? Treading water... or sinking? Getting ahead? Do you have money for the extras?
4. Where are you headed in the next 5 years? Promotions, income, and savings...
5. What can make it better? What are your realistic options?

The great thing about being free and living in a free country is that you can choose to make changes if you want to.

Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

If you're not ready to hop onto the train and go, don't. When the time is right, you'll use that ticket.Are you considering a life change?

Thinking about moving to another part of the country? Maybe you feel it's time for a career change. You may be in a relationship that isn't working out—or one that needs to get more serious.

You’re thinking, you are wondering, you are confused.

How do you know when its time to let go? How do you know when its time to move on?

Here’s a clear way to tell what’s going to be your right choice.

When it's time to move on, you will have very little reluctance to leave behind what you have already. Why is that? It's because you are genuinely more excited about what you are headed to than what you are giving up.

It's become more important to you. It means more, in fact in your mind, you are already there. It's time for you to move on!

But, what if you are conflicted? You are…not…quite..sure what to do. In that case the answer is also crystal clear! The answer is that now is NOT the time and it may never be.

You aren’t ready. Only time will tell if you ever will be ready, but certainly not now. While enticing, the new options haven’t quite grabbed you enough

The fact that you are wondering tells you the new opportunities don’t really mean as much to you as you might have first thought. They have SOME appeal but not enough to pry you away from what you have already established.

When the time is right for you to move on, you’ll know, because you will go—excited about what you are headed towards—and not looking back over your shoulder at what you left behind.

Shuffle or Hustle

Recently, I got on an elevator, and then immediately in behind me rushed a UPS deliveryman. He was pushing his cart filled with boxes and you could feel the small space almost vibrate with his energy.

You could tell he was pumped up and a man on a mission. He had places to go, things to deliver and a short time to get it done. The result was that he was energized and focused. That’s certainly not the way most go about their business during the day.

Your energy shapes everything around you. How fast you walk. How fast you talk. It paints a picture for everyone else to see how you feel about what you do. It let’s people know instinctively whether or not what you are doing is important and beyond that whether or not YOU are important.

What kind of results do you want? Are you on a commission? Are you on a salary? Watch a delivery person, the energy that they go around with versus somebody who’s on a salary on a job with a guaranteed income. 

Companies generate the energy level of their employees. There’s a difference between the body language of somebody with a top company, somebody with a average or mediocre or floundering company.  What do their employees look like?  How can you tell? You can tell by their energy and body language.

Give them reasons. if you want people to hustle, you’ve got to give them reasons—personal reasons, team reasons, mission reasons. Give them a cause where they see the big picture. If anyone asks the question, "What’s so great about this company?" they should be able to rattle off two, three, four examples. There should be an energy about it. When they talk about their company it should create fire, energy, and excitement. They should get more excited the more they talk about it because it’s reminding them of good things and why they are fortunate to be there.

Find a place that motivates you to hustle. If you shuffle along through life you’ll never do anything great. One mark of high achievers is that they have tremendous energy and excitement about what they do. For you to have a chance at Greatness you must find a place to work that excites you. You must find something to do that excites you, something that you believe in and know can pay off in a big way. Finding an energizing environment to work in releases you to be your best and make the maximum contribution. 

Your hustle will identify you to everyone as someone who has great promise and is on your way up.  You will be enjoying your work and it will show. People will enjoy being around you.

It's the people who hustle who wind up at the top!