How You Can Increase Your Value

Once you have gotten an idea about the experience, skills, resources, tools and contacts that make up your personal list of assets, start thinking about how to increase the value of what you have. When you understand how truly amazing you are, you would more easily be interested in putting the time, effort and resources into that investment.

When you are willing to invest in yourself and your ideas, you have put your money, time and energy into where your mouth is. Your personal investment is one thing that lasts a lifetime and can never be taken away from you. Any investment you make in your growth and self-investment which may include books, courses, seminars, conventions, would yield incredible returns eventually. The greatest financial and emotional rewards are in your own self-development.

Sometimes the hardest investment to make is one of time. Investing in yourself requires a reordering of your priorities so that your time is being spent in ways that truly support your goals. The way you schedule your time can be a telling indication of how much you believe in yourself and your dreams.

If you don’t invest in yourself and what you truly want, be prepared to get less than you deserve. That is why it is not a coincidence that most successful self-entrepreneurs are also passionate lifelong learners. They know that learning is an investment, not an expense.

You make the most of life by investing time, energy and resources in personal training and development. Training is a proof of your personal commitment to your task. Qualification is not a substitute for personal development.

Anthony Robbins has no college degree, but he now teaches even professors. The foreword to one of his books was written by a professor, who said that nobody in the school of psychology has the kind of insight that Anthony Robbins has.

Richard Branson, the emperor of the Virgin Empire conglomerate developed the art of reading whilst working as a newspaper vendor to become a resounding success now listed as the 11^th wealthiest Briton.

Personal development can create a new world for you. You in turn become a value creator. Remember, when you have become valuable, you have a business preposition.

Yahoo has fired CEO Carol Bartz

Yahoo has fired CEO Carol Bartz We know that Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock informed her of the news today because of the epic email she sent via iPad to all employees announcing that she had been fired.
The move ends a rocky nearly three-year tenure of failed initiatives and unmet expectations. Bartz, the strong-willed former CEO of Autodesk, was brought in to clean house and streamline operations at the company after it rejected Microsoft’s generous acquisition offer and decided to go it alone

Why Was Bartz Fired?

When Bartz first took the job back in January 2009, we were skeptical of the move. Here’s what our Editor-in-Chief Adam Ostrow said at the time:
“First reaction: what exactly does Autodesk have to do with a consumer-focused Internet company like Yahoo? Bartz certainly sounds like she has a long history of running a big company – Autodesk has more than 7,000 employees and $2 billion in annual revenue – but what expertise and vision does she have that’s relevant to one of the world’s biggest Web companies, in desperate need of re-inventing itself?”
His words have turned out to be prophetic. Bartz had no clue how to reinvent a stagnant web company into a digital media powerhouse. Despite all of the tools at her disposal, her legacy will probably be defined by Yahoo’s ridiculous squabble with Alibaba.
Bartz may have been an effective manager, but didn’t have the vision needed to lead Yahoo. What Yahoo needed was a Steve Jobs. Unfortunately co-founder Jerry Yang failed at that task, which led to the hiring of Carol Bartz.
The Alibaba controversey isn’t what did Bartz in, though. It wasn’t her inability to provide direction for the company, either. Ultimately, the reason she is no longer CEO is simple: she failed to create shareholder value.
Yahoo’s share price was $11.59 the day before her appointment. When the markets closed on September 6, the stock was worth $12.74. That is an increase of less than 10%, with most of that value being derived from the skyrocketing value of its China assets. The entity known as Yahoo is worth less today than it was when Bartz took over as CEO.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re the founder or most-seasoned CEO on the planet. If you can’t increase shareholder value, you will not last long as CEO at a publicly traded company. Jerry Yang and Carol Bartz both learned this the hard way.
Bartz’s inability to move Yahoo’s stock price is why she is no longer at the helm of one the Internet’s most important and storied companies. Now it’s up to Jerry Yang and Roy Bostock to find a new CEO who can provide the vision and leadership the struggling company so desperately needs.

She was let go for failing to realize that Yahoo is an entertainment news source and media company as well as a very large portal of services for many people. One that needs focus, vision and a way to bring people together socially which would then allow it to rival facebook in the area of connections. Yahoo has a number of services and features which when properly bundled make a very strong case for success.
If the board wants to talk seriously, I’d be happy to chat with them.

Resilience

In  February 2008, the stock exchange market hit its peak just before the global economic meltdown. Apparently that was my first month at a new job where i was to be earning a salary five times more than i was earning at my previous job. The following months i invested heavily in the stock market taking advantage of its declining prices in the hope that the prices of stocks would rise again and be sell-able for huge profits. I stayed on with that company for a year and some months before the bubble burst and found myself without a job. My unemployment lasted a full 2 years and 7 months. I did not know how to respond to the jobless situation and the rejection as I applied for jobs and interviews. By the end of the first year of being unemployed, i had sold my shares in stocks and was only concerned about survival. i battled with financial and emotional issues during that period. This is one of the reasons why i am glad that i gave my life to Jesus a long time ago. He was my anchor in the storm. Somehow i was able to pull through with the help of God. 

Eventually i was restored to a dignifying employment and began a flourishing relationship. The lines began to fall into pleasant places for me. As i am writing this article, i am happily married with three lovely children. My husband has been a great advantage to my life. i have a thriving business and my ministry is blossoming. i am currently preparing a vacation trip to Spain with my husband and children. It has been goodness all the way. Our children are brilliant and they love God just like we their parents do. There is so much of my joy i can share with you probably on my next blog.

For now i want to share with you on how you can overcome setbacks by building your capacity for resilience. You need to first overcome the emotional traps of deflation and victimization which are the direct effects of the setback in order to have the energy to focus on the way forward.

Deflation: You should try to overcome the feelings of disappointment in yourself and others. Deliberately re-frame negative events in productive ways with strength and creativity through habits of good thoughts.

Victimization: You cannot afford the helpless by-standing attitude. Creatively look for ways to intervene by developing your capacity for resilience. 

To make the shift effectively from backwards to forward, you need to change your thinking from cause-orientation to response-orientation in considering the followings:

1. Control: Look for what you can improve now rather than trying to identify all the factors even those beyond your control that caused it in the first place. Ask yourself, what aspect can you control?

2. Impact: Focus on identifying what positive effects your personal actions might have by sidestepping the temptation to find the origins of the problem in yourself or others. Step up to make the most immediate positive impact on this situation at hand.

3. Breadth: Do you assume that the underlying cause of the crisis is specific and can be contained, or do you worry that it might cast a long shadow over all aspects of your life? What are your impressions of the adversity's magnitude? You should rather focus on how to limit the damage.

4. Duration: How long do you believe that the crisis and its repercussions would last? You can begin to imagine a desirable outcome.

All the best as you understand and redirect your instinctive reactions towards useful things.

The Key To Creating Wealth

The key to wealth creation is to simply add value. Successful people are those who are always looking for ways to add value in some way to a person, a company, a product or a service. How can we add value?

1.    Find something that is not being done at all that needs to be done.

2.    Find something that is not being done well that needs to be improved upon.

3.    Find something that is not being done cheap enough or that needs mass production.

4.    Find a better and faster way to do what is currently being done.

Adding value is the way that all fortunes are made. Whenever you see an opportunity to give people what they want at a price greater than it costs you to produce that product or service, you see an opportunity to make a profit, build a business and begin moving toward financial success. Almost any business or profession can make you financially independent if you can find a way to add enough value.