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Million Dollar Tip #2: Leverage on Your Current Skills

This is Tip #2 of the Million Dollar Tip Series. If you have financial goals in life, you’ll find this series a perfect resource to achieve them.

Leverage on Your Current Skills

One of the fastest way to earn money is to leverage on the skills you already have at the moment.

In Million Dollar Tip #1, we learned that money is value. Value is defined as something of importance to others. When you make a positive difference to others’ lives, you deliver value. And when you deliver value, you establish a channel for earning money in the process.

Using your current skills is the best way to start making that difference in others’ lives. Reasons being:

  1. For the skills you already have, there are thousands of people out there who do not have these skills and can greatly benefit from your expertise. These people may either want you to teach them the skill or want to engage your service on them.
  2. There’s always downtime involved when cultivating a new skill. Since you’ve already cultivated these skills, you can utilize them right away with little to no downtime. While you’re earning money from these skills, you can be simultaneously cultivating your desired new skill (the one you want…

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    Published Apr 27 2011
    Filed: Goals & Success, Money & Wealth
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Leveling Up


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Many times in our pursuits of goals, we hit brick walls that stop us from advancing. This is especially so when what we are trying to achieve is bigger than what we are capable of accomplishing at the point.

To achieve a state where we become bigger than our problems, we need to level up.

Leveling up is a concept that comes from games. If you play games like RPGs, MMORPGs, or just games in general, you will be familiar with it. In RPGs, it is normal to run into a situation where we can’t proceed forward because our characters are not strong enough to defeat the enemies. This typically happens when we are advancing to a new area where we are exposed to stronger enemies than the ones we combated against before. At this point, we usually get KO-ed or battered down and have to return to the town/inn to recuperate.

However, this doesn’t stop us from progressing, does it? What do we do now? We start training and leveling up the characters. When they level up, they gain an increase in their stats, such as HP (hit points – your health bar. The more your hit points, the more damage you can withstand), strength, defense, dexterity, intelligence,…


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Published Apr 19 2009
Filed: Goals & Success, Skill Building
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