JOURNEY TO £1MILLION 015: Grow Yourself, Grow Your Net Worth

Rick Matsokotere
Jul 28, 2017 · 3 min read

I still get staggered by the kinds of money that get thrown around in football. Paris Saint-Germain are offering to pay Barcelona around £200 million for Neymar! Is he worth this kind of money? Is anyone?

Yet people are willing to pay certain amounts for people. This is what I want to talk about with your net worth. Net worth is what monetary value your life is creating. It is a financial term.


Now let’s us not confuse net worth with the worth of a human life. Monetary value is not to be confused with a person’s intrinsic worth. Human rights is all about how much as a human being your life is worth.

Back to net worth though. Most people in the world have a low net worth or even negative worth because they never pay attention to what monetary value they are producing. Everyone thinks they are worth big money but your work shows us how true that is.


You may have potential that could be turned to wealth, and even sources of wealth available to you, but they need to be converted into value. If they are not converted then they are useless to you and your net worth. VALUE is what you will be paid for delivering. This is the law of income.

Create value inside you first, then that value can be turned to money (your net worth). If you learn physics, then engineering and you can apply that to solving problems for a power company, then they will give you money in return. This then becomes your net worth. It is worth a quick mention that in a job, your net worth is determined by your employer, whereas working for yourself you can leverage a bit more.


Time is your friend when it comes to creating your net worth. You can take time to grow the knowledge, the expertise and then the products that you produce so that your net worth can grow. The initial part of the process may seem like you are not making much headway, but be patient and see your net worth increase.

The only difference between you and Richard Branson is that he converted his time better than you did. He has a net worth of billions because he took the time to increase what he could do and what he could offer the world. You have not done that yet in the best way and you have the same 24 hours as he does to change that.

The time you spend today on working on increasing your value, will become your net worth and greatness tomorrow. Michael Jordan tried out for the first team in his sophomore year high school but was rejected. He spent the next year, instead of moaning and complaining, becoming the best second team player he could be and proving his worth for the first team squad the next year.


Here are 3 ways you can use your time to grow yourself and therefore your net worth:

Step 1 – Invest your time into growing yourself. Find your passion and purpose in order to align yourself to an activity that will yield maximum financial return. Get to know your market. Develop your knowledge and practise how to apply it well. This is why I became a workaholic in 2017!

Step 2 – Invest your time into other people. When you use your gift to help other people, it is always a good investment. These people have potential to become your friends, clients, suppliers and partners.

Step 3 – Invest your time into creating products or services. This step is critical for the monetisation of your value. Whatever value you now have within you is not money yet, until it is a product or service of good enough quality that someone will pay for it. This video is a great free product I’m giving to you guys. It took me 45 minutes to write and 20 minutes to record. However my book which has taken 6 months to write will cost you something. My life has gone into producing it.

So as part of my Journey To £1Million I am growing my capabilities and making myself valuable. I hope you are too…

Rick

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Rick Matsokotere

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Author of MINIMUM WAGE REVOLUTION: CREATING YOUR DESIRED LIFE FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE LADDER! http://amzn.to/2gP7Vz2 | Specialist on WORK and JOBS

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