Releasing My Value

How to Produce With What I Know Already?

Producing For Others – Part 4

How do we plan to develop so that you can produce in the future?
After you’ve gone decades and been employed for decades, you can see a pattern.  You have a perspective of a track record and history, your own history. With this comes some valuable information not only for you, but anyone you can inspire.  What if I had capitalized on what someone else afforded me, experience? You see (and you know this is true) experience is important, just look at your resume’. What if for every job you had, you created a book or a series of web-pages that documented what you know?  How much more valuable would you be? What would that be worth to someone? What would it be worth to you?

The Thought or Concept:
I will make myself valuable.

Here’s the thought before I run down the wrong rabbit-trail for this web-post.  If I could start-over in my career, I would have taken note (written down) everything I’d learned and everything I used to get the job done.  I’d have created a book for every job I had. I wish I had started my career with this thought, that what I’m doing is valuable for someone other than me otherwise it would not be worth the paycheck I received.  If I could go back to my short lived job at McDonald’s, I would have written a book on the experience, what I learned and how the job is down. Here’s where you should ask why. Because no one else does or can share what I have experienced with not just one person, but an endless number.   I can not just be an employee, I must also be a leader. It’s up to me to make myself valuable. I thought it (becoming valuable) would simply happen on its own or because I had the right job; that’s just not the case. The majority of people have jobs and you know what they have that’s different than anyone else?  Not much, they’ve settled for being just like everyone else. Since I can’t go back and neither can you, we should start today right where we are.

The Practice:
Let’s start documenting what we know.

If you needed the information to do your job, or to manage your life, your business, then someone just like you or behind (not beneath) you need the same.  Why not put what you’ve already accumulated in a form so that others can take advantage of your knowledge, growth, and learning?

This is what Pamela and I have decided to do.  So let me give you a few examples of how we put this thought into action using the eight departments found in our home, our life, our business.

• Executive Administration.  We’ve written web-posts on the people who impact, shape, sharpen, and mentor us.  We use our online platform to help others put together a system of checks and balances, called overseers, to help keep their life on target.  When I held a position as an executive administrator, I had a unique set of skills that’s valuable to any individual who manages any type of work.  These tips are valuable to such people.
• Accounting and Finance Department.  I’m only going to share one example here.  Pamela and I through much prayer created a method that’s inspired an app that’s used to help others apply the budget billing process to pay their bills ahead, stop chasing bills, and give them some breathing room when managing their financial obligations.
• Facilities.  Do you even have a record of what belongs to you?  Do you have a plan for what’s coming down the pipe?  Most don’t. We’ve written content that helps people go from where they are to planning and achieving where they desire to be.
• Office Administration.  We’ve taken what we’ve learned from years of using software, applications (apps), smart devices, and analog methods to manage our home, our teams, our personal endeavors, our careers and platforms and use them to help others do the same.
• Product(ion) and Development.  We’re currently using our platform to document how we produce and add value.  It’s in this content that we help others do what we’ve done and what we’re doing to exchange normal living for extraordinary living.
• Marketing, public relations and creative.  I never thought my experience with Buffer and Todoist would come in-handy for anyone until my friend started his brand.  Because I’ve written and recorded this information I’m able to share with him how managing a social media schedule/calendar is done.  What are you doing that’s helpful in advising someone else? Write it down. Make a one page document if that’s all you can do; start there.
• Human Resources.  No one could have paid me enough to make me believe that my experience around divorce would be of value.  While I’m in no way a promoter of divorce, there are so many who seek my advice in picking up the pieces created while a marriage breaks apart.  While we’ve not begun publishing our content on this topic, we have been creating the structure and project plan for it. What experiences have you overcome that others haven’t yet?  You might be the key to them putting their life, their business, back together again.
• Legacy Department.  How will you prepare the next generation (your children) for their interaction in the world.  How will you provide legal guidance or political advice? What’s the strategy for your family?  These are things we discuss at the dinner table so that our children can take advantage of what we’re hearing and how we process such events.  How will your children handle it when their candidate is or isn’t elected? You’ll have friends and others who have differing party-lines, how do you handle it?  I think you get the point; write your plan and make it plain.

The point is, we document it all because we need it and we know someone else does.  This content will soon be available in digital form as well as print. What’s your plan?  We hope what you’ve read has inspired your to act upon what you already know.

Today is Friday!
I’m not sure I did the best job of conveying the idea that what you know, and the experiences you have are worth a whole lot, so don’t neglect them.  Write it down, record a podcast, create simple one page helpful tips, do life-hacks on your social networks, but do something with what you have and who you are.

It’s my pleasure to share this content with you, because I want you to be the best you possible.  Thanks for visiting Kerry A. Clark & Co. where “Your life is more than a life; it’s your business!”

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