“I know what I bring to the table … so trust me when I say I am not afraid to eat alone.” – Anonymous
When you know your worth, your value, you don’t see yourself through the eyes of those who don’t value you. Knowing your worth helps you improve your time management and delegation skills while helping you to improve your mastery. Let’s look at these two skills:
1 Time management skill
Success in life is determined by the ability to be make use of the resources you have at hand, and time is one of those resources. We all wake up with the same 24 hours in a day, but when we go to sleep at night some people have made more progress than others. Every day you vote how you wish your life to be, wittingly or unwittingly. Most people go through life as complete strangers to themselves, they never get to know their worth.
2 Delegation skill
When you know your worth, you won’t waste your precious time trying to do everything there is to do, you’ll instead focus on what matters most while delegating those things that others are able to do for you. So when you know your worth, you learn to maximise you timer and energy. You don’t optimise the wrong things. The ability to intelligently delegate the right task to the right person in the right way while ensuring it’s done is an absolute essential skill to develop. Like any other skill, delegating can be developed.
These are the most valuable skills that anyone can acquire and they have the largest impact, both at a personal and professional level. Once you acquire these skills, they stick with you for your entire life and will continuously improve the quality of your existence.
