How many people are self employed?

So how many people are self employed? The true answer is that were all self-employed. The biggest mistake that we can make is to think that we work for someone else. You are self-employed from the moment you take your first job until you retire. You are the president of your own personal services corporation, which is a legal entity. You are the president of an entrepreneurial company with 1 employee, your self. You only have one product to sell throughout your life and that is your own personal services.

All fortunes begin with the sale of personal services because that is all you have at the beginning. You go out in the market place and all you have is your ability to work. Now the next question is where do you go from there? Your job through out your life is to sell the highest quality and quantity of your personal services. As president of your own personal services company you are responsible 100% for every part of your business. You’re responsible for production. You will always be rewarded in direct proportion to the value of your production. You have a responsibility for quality and control. You’re responsible for marketing and sales. In other words you’re responsible for getting a good job, marketing your self and moving ahead. You’re responsible for your finances. You’re also responsible for research and development, which means upgrading your skills and abilities. Simply getting better at what you do is your responsibility.

Now if your saying “I don’t want to invest in myself” which is your own personal and professional development, than what your saying unconsciously to your self is that you have no future. Now, you don’t mean to be that way, but people who don’t invest in themselves have no future. You are then saying to yourself that “I’m not a good investment.” Put another way, people who don’t invest in themselves have in fact given up on themselves.

All your hopes and dreams for your future, your family and children’s future depend upon your ability to do your job well and continually get better. There is no other way to improve your future except to get better. Achieving excellence will save you years of hard work and frustration. Being the best at what you do will simply change your life.

If you believe in yourself and your future, you must dedicate to yourself to lifelong learning, to continuous improvement. There is no other way to improve the quality of your life except for you to get better at the things that you do.

Napoleon Hill, the author of Think and Grow Rich, studied the most successful people and came to these conclusions.

1. All top people had certain qualities and skills in common.
2. None of them started with any of these skills and qualities. Many of them were impoverish, with no educations, coming from farm backgrounds with no friends and no contacts.
3. All of these traits and skills were learnable.
4. He also came up with another fact and that was all successful people are decisive. They were able to evaluate the information and simply make the decision to do or not to do something.

Did you know that the top 20% of companies in profitability invest 3% or more in their revenues in training and development in their people? Also, the top 20% of individuals invest the same 3% in their personal development and training.

When you make the decision to invest in yourself, the whole world will benefit.

Be Well,

Keith S. Aul
“When You Change Your Thoughts, You Change Your Results”
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The Importance of Learning

Let’s define what learning is. Learning is the acquisition of knowledge or skill through education and experience. Our ability to learn and our intellectual capacity are intangibles. However, these intangibles are your greatest assets because everything you do to reinvent and update your knowledge allows you to grow from where you are today to where you want to go. Learning is a prerequisite to growth.

Learning is vitally important because it helps us make informed choices about our own lives and the societies that we live in.

The world is always changing around us. There is nothing anyone of us can do about the changes that happen in industries, technologies, etc. Remember the birth of the automobile? What did the first automobile look like? Now after getting that mental image in your mind, compare it to the automobiles today. We can all agree there are huge differences between them. The automobiles of today are a direct result of human beings gaining a deeper understanding of how cars can operate. This can only happen through a commitment to lifelong learning. If we are to ever progress in any area of our lives, we must heed the call to lifelong learning.

We must acquire this fundamental discipline because it is as normal as food and physical exercise.

Some may think that learning is a luxury for a few individuals or learning should be concerned with our early years. It should be looked at as something well beyond formal schooling. It encompasses our entire life cycle.

Recognize that lifelong learning is a journey with no end in sight and that no one can every have all the answers. We must have the humility or willingness to learn from others. In other words, learn from the experts. We will never live long enough to learn it all on our own.

The conscious pursuit of learning, just like excellence is what really counts. We must accept the fact that change is inevitable. We must all thrive on change and never be intimidated by it.

Change is the result of a willingness to try out new approaches, observe the results, and to include the feedback into new initiatives.

Learning allows us to stay ahead of the game. If you don’t render yourself obsolete someone else will, like your employer. It’s the price innovators will gladly pay for staying ahead of everyone else. In order for you to create the new results you want in your life, learning is a path you must be willing to take. It provides the opportunities to continually expand your capacity.

Perhaps the most important thing you can do for yourself and your future and your family, which will automatically include generations to come, is to challenge yourself to commit to being a student for life as the pursuit for knowledge is one of the smartest investments you’ll ever make.

What have you learned today? What new skill will allow you to move forward from where you are now to where you want to go? Have you heard of the quantum leap strategy?

Be Well,

Keith S. Aul
“When You Change Your Thoughts, You Change Your Results”
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