S8 Ep24: Make More Money by Becoming More Valuable

All right, Roy Matlock Jr. here, and today we are talking money as we always talk money.

And this time I'm going to talk really, if you've got...

If you're out there right now and you're trying to figure out what to do to keep up with inflation and move forward, today's going to be the show to work on the top side.

And what I mean by the top side, that's your top line income.

Because when you start thinking about, there's two reasons you're having financial problems if you're having them right now or you're not where you want to be.

Number one, you're just not making enough money.

And there's causes for that.

everything is a recipe you put in chocolate cake mix you don't get a white cake mix outcome you what you do is you go down the path of you know changing the recipe and so when it comes to your income if you're having trouble making money there's some rules of making money that you might be breaking and that's why you're not making what you need to make and so I'm going to talk about The majority of the show today is about how to increase your value proposition and get yourself in a good spot.

So number one, the most important thing always is an income and having a diversified income is even better.

Having an income that one day you can monetize and sell is even better than that.

And so what you want to be thinking about today's show is number one, number one financial problem that people have is they just don't make enough money.

And number two, The second thing is that once they start making money, they don't know what to do with it.

And so you have to create income before you can save, invest, or retire.

And so one of the most important skill sets is developing yourself.

And so what we're going to do first off is start thinking about building skills that make you more valuable.

And, uh, I look back at my life and I know, I know what the keys are.

You know, one of the keys, uh, you know, is, is that your value proposition is what pays you.

And so what you do is learn and act, you know, a lot of people learn, but don't act.

Uh, and a lot of people just go throughout their life with no more value or education than they had back when they finished high school.

And they're wondering why they're having issues.

So what are some of the skills that will always travel with you? The first one is be easy to deal with people skills.

I know people right now that get tore up over the least things that just don't matter.

All right.

I mean, just really get bothered and not only do they get bothered.

They get bothered to the point and then they let other, they bother other people because they're bothered.