The High Achiever's Guide by Maki Moussavi

Author:Maki Moussavi [Moussavi, Maki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781642500226
Publisher: Mango Media
Published: 2019-07-08T13:29:03+00:00

Part III

System Update

Chapter 8

What Are You Worth?

When I first started to question whether to stay on my career path, money was one of the very first considerations to pop into my head. I mean, I was doing so well. Making more money than I had even dreamed possible when I was young and projecting what felt like a big salary, only to be totally blown away by the one I was actually bringing in at that point in my career. I won’t lie to you and tell you that I dismissed the thought as unimportant. On the contrary, I knew just how important it was. My drive to achieve was in no small part fueled by the tangibility of financial success.

What had gained equal importance was what I was tolerating to make that salary in the particular way that I was making it.

In my coaching experience, both formal and informal, it’s nearly inevitable that the very first “but” in the discussion about finding out what really lights someone up is “But I can’t make less money. And there’s no money (or some variation thereof) in what I really want to do.”

Of all the reasons people use to not do what they really want to do, this one pisses me off the most. I’m not pissed at the person, but at the bullshit programming around “realistic” expectations that creates that kind of thinking in the first place.

Since we are far enough into the process to do a little breakdown, let’s look at the ways in which this rationalization of there being no money in whatever lights you up is holding you back:

•It stops you cold before you can even start. Before you’ve even taken one step, you’ve slammed the door shut on whatever it is that lights you up, or might, if you gave it half a chance. There’s no money. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Go straight to—or remain in—jail.

•It comes fully stocked with the two most insidious and damaging limiting beliefs: There is not enough (money in this idea, people who want this, market opportunity, etc.) and I am not enough (not smart enough, not talented enough, not driven enough, etc.).

•It reeks of fear. Because of all of the above. There’s no money in it, it’s a dumb idea, and I’m not smart enough to make it happen.

•It’s all-or-nothing thinking. Who says you have to quit your job to try your hand at whatever it is you’re contemplating? There are ways to proceed that have nothing to do with ditching your career and your salary when it feels totally unsafe to do so.

•It is dismissive. Of you, your talent, the value you can bring. And perhaps most of all, it’s dismissive of the people out there who want this thing you have inside of you, only they don’t even know they want it because you won’t act on it.

If all of that isn’t enough to make you stop and think, consider this. When you refuse to

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