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B Your Most Important Product is You!
Everyone has unique and varied roles to fill and individual goals for his/ her future. It’s important to keep them in mind whenever you decide to make changes or begin a new plan in your life. Your quality of life and the person you become is really your most important product.
“Then one day, I realized I needed to specialize. So I perfected catching worms!”
Judy and Robert’s Story
Judy lived in a lovely, spacious home in the suburbs of Massachusetts. She adored her husband, Robert, and their three children, but felt like she spent too much time cleaning up after everyone and keeping her home tidy. Robert was a hospital administrator, the children were in school most of the day, and in various lessons and sports in the afternoons. Judy wanted to have more time to spend with the kids when they were home, so she decided to try different ways to make her house cleaning more efficient and less time consuming.
It wasn’t long before she became very efficient at organizing and cleaning and even began to enjoy the work. She loved all the activity and her friends often commented on her organizational talents. As her reputation for incredible efficiency grew, even
Judy became quite proud of her abilities. She was happy she could get all her work done in about half the time as before. Her home always looked great, and everything in their household ran like clockwork.
When Judy and Robert decided the family needed some extra money for a new car, Judy took a part-time job working as a bookkeeper in an office. Unfortunately, her salary wasn’t too great, and her boss was bad- tempered. To top if off, the work was boring and she hated sitting at a desk. In no time at all Judy’s life became more and more of a grind. She began to hate her job, and even though Robert tried to help more, the house was always a mess. Their lives were becoming quite disorganized. Somehow, taking the part-time job didn’t seem like such a great idea anymore, and the money just wasn’t worth it.
6 Workbook 2: Improve Your Financial Life
Take a few moments to discuss what went wrong with Judy’s plan to earn extra money? Was being a bookkeeper in a small office the best job for her? Remember: Always go with your strengths, and you are your most important product. Trying to build success and productivity using your weaknesses or things that don’t interest you is often doomed to failure. In time you may improve your skills and expand your interests but don’t ignore your best asset: Your real strength rests in making good choices.