Employees: Earn More for Less Effort

People often say ‘you get out what you put it’.  Rubbish.  You can get loads more back than you put in, if you ‘put in’ to the right places in the right ways at the right times.  Whatever you’re currently getting out of your work, you can almost certainly get much more.

How?

I learned this lesson from Michael Gerber in the book ‘The E-Myth Revisited’.  It applies to business owners, but equally applies to employees too.  Michael Gerber mentions that whilst working in your business, you should also be working on your business.  As well as doing the day to day stuff that you get paid to do, you should be giving plenty of attention to strengthening, organising and growing your business too.  You should be planning ahead, deciding which way you’ll move and ultimately building a money making machine that’s as near to self-perpetuating as possible.  You should build your business to free yourself.

How Do You Do it as an Employee?

Whilst working in your career, you should be working on your career.  Few people do.  They don’t want to spend the time.  But it’s an investment.  If you take a little bit of extra time to think ahead, plan, choose your direction, and try to ‘build’ the value you provide in to something as near to self-perpetuating as possible, then you’re on to something rewarding.

If a business owner can strive to build a money making machine that eventually frees themself, then why can’t you as an employee?  Have you ever thought about it?  Can you stop selling your time and instead work out how to still give high value by somehow bottling up the value you provide?  When you’re explaining things to others, or teaching them, can you bottle up your words so that they can listen again if they need to and so that your words can reach others, freeing you from saying them again?  That’s so easy to do these days, but few people do it.  And that’s just one example.

For every task you do, how can you work in such a way that your efforts can be re-used when you’re not there?

Think about it.  Get some answers.  Write them down and schedule to try them out.  And enjoy what comes of it.

P.S. The smartest way to earn more for less effort is to get in to the right line of work in the first place.  Working on your career means purposefully steering yourself towards the highest rewards you want by exchanging the best of yourself.  My new site ‘The Great Career Escape’ helps you do that and you can create a free account: http://thegreatcareerescape.com

There’s also a free ebook on the home page which you might find interesting..

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