Generating Income

     Your ability to generate an income is of paramount importance. Without an income all aspects of your life are negatively impacted. Safeguarding and expanding your income is more important than almost any other issue. Your income has a direct impact on your quality of life and that of your family. A lifestyle on $30,000.00 a year is very different from the lifestyle on $300,000.00 a year. Your level of health care and disease prevention, education, mobility, comfort, living conditions and enjoyment of life depend on your income. In a sense the more you make determines how much more you will make in the future. Why? 

     Your health, ability to move and travel, experience and education, opportunity to learn marketable skills, and even the ability to relax and laugh after work influence your ability to make more money. These and other factors effect how hard you are able to work; not just how hard you physically work but how hard you can work on improving your skills, performance, and effectiveness at work. Focused, hard work is what is required to generate more income in the future. Anything that holds you back from that goal needs to be addressed. How strongly you are able to address it now is dependent on your current income. This is one reason why safeguarding your income is critical.  

     For example, if you are ill or injured and can not afford to respond appropriately you will not be able to work as long or as hard. That could cost you earning opportunities now and in the future. If you are under educated or lack marketable skills you will not have the same employment opportunities as someone who does. That could cost you the chance to earn more. Your income will allow you to invest in things like preventative medicine, nutrition and classes to address these issues.  

     Part of your current income needs to be invested in you. You are your most valuable asset for generating higher levels of income. Invest in ways to safeguard your current income by learning to improve your work quality and output. Then invest in your ability to generate a higher level of income in the future. Learn new skills, improve your health, and acquire tools that allow you to be increasingly productive.