33 How to Increase Your Earning Potential

Quote of the day :

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

-- Bertrand Russell

We do not go to work only to earn an income, but to find meaning in our lives. What we do is a large part of what we are

-- Alan Ryan

How to Increase Your Earning Potential

1. Ask for a raise
2. Explore new opportunities
3. Learn new skills
4. Ask for more responsibility at your current job
5. Become the kind of person your current employer doesn’t want working for the competition
6. Move to a new employer
7. Find a mentor
8. Someone who’s been there done that
9. A career development/planning specialist
10. Start a side hustle
11. Using the skill set from you current workplace
12. Using skills you already have but aren’t using in your current workplace
13. Learning new skills
14. Learn to code
15. Computer programmers control the future
16. Everything runs on code
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Those are all physical things you can do to increase your earning potential. But the greatest potential for increasing your income comes from developing yourself as a person. Things like:

1. Confidence
2. Asking for a raise
3. Recognizing new opportunities
4. Moving to a new job/position/career
5. Awareness
6. Opportunistic

These personal skills are critical in truly becoming someone who can earn a high income.

1. Rent things out
2. A room in your house
3. An extra vehicle
4. A boat
5. A campsite
6. Sell things 
7. Stuff you don’t need or use
8. Tools
9. Clothes
10. Farm products
11. Drop shipping
12. Flipping things
13. Become a consultant
14. Teaching your current skills
15. Marketing
16. Developing an existing business
17. Your own business
18. Buying and developing a business that isn’t operating at full potential
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20. Investing
21. Land
22. Stocks
23. Websites
24. Businesses

Dream a little: What do you see yourself doing in 15 years, if you could do anything you wanted?