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Unlock Your Hidden Value
Lawrence Briscoe
March 02, 2024
Unlock Your Hidden Value
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Who is this Newsletter for?
This newsletter is crafted for those who:
Feel undervalued at work or in life.
Possess untapped potential they struggle to bring into reality.
Find it challenging to express their true selves.
I'm here to affirm that your potential far exceeds what others, and even you, might recognize.
In our conversation, I will use the term "hidden value" which will symbolize your potential, expression, and true worth.
The challenge lies in bridging the gap between your potential and your current reality. a journey that demands accountability.
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Close the Gap
You have to take full accountability for your work
And how do you take full accountability?
Here are a few ways:
by working under your business name
freelance
putting your name on a project
build a portfolio full of your past work for clients and hiring managers to admire
commit to your goals publicly
celebrate your wins & own your failures
mentor and teach others
When I say take accountability, I don’t mean in terms of your relationships with people in your life.
I mean take full ownership and be accountable for everything related to your work, effort, content and business.
You will always profit, achieve, and accomplish so much more when you take full accountability for all of your work.
Responsibility doubled = achievement squared.
Your achievements are positively disproportioned to your responsibility.
Meaning whatever responsibility you take on and you crush it that reward will be valued twice as the amount of responsibility.
Proving your worth in the 1st degree links your accountability directly to your “hidden value” bringing it to reality.
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Your “hidden value” is one of a kind it’s your potential, passions, expressions, and worth that no one can emulate, and if you can place that in someone’s life not only will you be fulfilling God’s work.
Become Valuable
Value determines how you’ll be compensated and treated in the marketplace.
Your pay is based on:
how much value you give
how replaceable you are.
I go over how to create financial breathing room by making yourself more valuable.
Click here to read my Financial Breathing Room Newsletter
I believe grade school teachers are extremely valuable but they are also very replaceable. We can’t necessarily say that college professors working at Harvard, Yale, or Stanford are easily replaceable considering the criteria of eligibility and connections.
I don't mean to sound rude, but jobs like being a cashier or a clerk, where you're the first person customers see and speak to, are normally jobs many people can do. Even if you work really hard and for long hours, these jobs usually don't pay a lot of money.
To earn more and be less replaceable, you need to climb higher up the ladder. This means putting more positions between you and clients.
The higher you go and the more people there are between you and direct contact with customers, the more valuable and harder to replace you become.
For business owners, hiring more people to stand between you and the clients shows your company is growing and you’re becoming more valuable because the only issues that you may meet will have to be extremely significant.
The goal is to be as close to irreplaceable as possible and how do you get closer to becoming irreplaceable?
You become irreplaceable by being competent in things most people can't or won't do. For example, taking full accountability over their work.
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This Little Light of Mine
By taking accountability, you’ll be forced to go into the light with nowhere to hide.
The quality of your work, your ethics, and your performance will become transparent and that’s the beauty of it.
How you perform when no one’s around or if someone else is accountable for your work takes a lot of pressure off of you.
That lack of accountability can cause laziness, neglect, complacency, and most of all comfort.
Where taking full accountability makes you step up to the plate and puts fire under your ass
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The Price of Accountability
Most people are terrified of the responsibility that comes with any business venture but confident in fulfilling the job duties from employment.
Why is that?
It’s the comfort and security that comes with not taking accountability for your work and actions. Not knowing they’re avoiding the very thing that will make them financially free.
But what’s the price of avoiding accountability?
Your dream life?
Your life’s purpose?
Your freedom?
All of those things are too valuable to sell just so you can avoid accountability.
“A salary is a drug they give you to forget your dreams.”
Full Accountability will Keep Your Pockets Full
The only way to become financially free is by owning equity.
Equity is owning a piece of a business or an asset, which means you get a share of the profits it makes.
Taking accountability is the same as taking an equity position in all of your work.
Accountability = Ownership
When you take full accountability for your work, you’re taking an "equity position" in everything you do.
exchanging work for a fixed annual salary, regardless of the work's long-term value or success, is similar to a "360 deal."
A 360 deal involves an artist giving up a percentage of all their earnings to a record label in exchange for the label's support and resources.
Your work is contributing to the success and progression of someone else’s company in exchange you get a percentage.
While employment provides a steady income, it will limit your potential for financial growth and independence. Employees work to build the company's equity and value, not their own.
taking accountability and treating your work as equity will lead to a more fulfilling and potentially lucrative career. Instead of passively trading time for money.
Closing Remarks
In embracing full accountability, you will walk a path not just to financial freedom but to a life lived on your own terms. This journey isn't about avoiding risks but about transforming them into stepping stones towards your dreams.
Let's redefine success, one accountable step at a time.
Take ownership and keep your phone on.
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