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This 1 Mindset Shift Will Change The Way You Think About Earning Money
When people think about their careers and how to earn a living for themselves, they tend to come at it from this perspective:
“What is that one thing I can do really, really well that people will pay me a lot of money for?”
From an early age, this is the mindset we are told is correct.
We are instructed to choose a career path, a particular skill set, and then spend our entire lives mastering that one single skill set so that our value continues to increase. Over time, what people will pay for that skill set will go up, up, up, and hopefully, we finish at the top of the pyramid, earning a lot of money doing something we are very good at and that we also enjoy.
But this way of thinking is also how most people get stuck.
What a lot of people don’t realize — and what is, I believe, the fundamental difference in entrepreneurs — is that with this mindset, there is a ceiling.
At some point down the line, one of two things happens that limits the growth of your own value:
- Since you are the commodity — “you” being the one required to perform the requested skill — you are capped…
