How to become rich? Skills for getting a job part 6

How to become rich? Skills for getting a job part 6

Mentality and attitude

To become rich, one must not just have the right paying job, which is of course important, but also have the right mentality towards the job and life and making money. This post on Ideas on How to Become Rich is about the right mentality and attitude towards the job, promotions, career opportunities, and making money. I have a earlier post on attitude and more by Nido Qubein (click here to go to Nido Qubein) in Ideas on How to Become Rich, where I wrote about persuasion and success strategies. This is after all an ideas blog, so it is full of various ideas on making money, from finance to investment to making money online. In this series, to recapitulate, we are talking about how to get a high paying job in order to become rich.

Making money and becoming rich is also partly a mindset, rather than merely getting a good job. This post is therefore about having the right mindset. I am going to discuss a few elements: have confidence, be assertive, think positively, and continuously improve yourself.

Have confidence. After you get the job and work at it for a while, when it comes to asking for more pay and getting a higher salary, be confident and go for it. Have confidence in your behaviour and your mind and don't shy away from difficult tasks, difficult decisions and difficult questions. If you have to ask for higher pay, then ask for your deserved higher pay.

Be assertive and firm, but not pushy. There is a fine line between being pushy and being assertive. Being assertive is part of being confident. Why should you deserve a higher pay and more money than your colleagues? Why should you make more money than your colleagues? You need to justify yourself. Your mentality should be: I am worth more than X dollars and I should get paid more because of my talents and skills - I can do this and that, etc, and I have the right attitude and mentality. You may not think so, but having confidence and the assertiveness that goes along with it will enable you to make more money and get promoted faster, or get better tasks and jobs in your department.

Think positively. There is little point looking confident and looking assertive, if you don't think you will get that pay raise or that increase in your salary. Ask for more money with the correct mindset and think that you will get it and believe in it. Making money is partly based on this key aspect of your attitude... if you think you can make more money and actively do it, you will; if you think you cannot make more money, and actively or subconsciously seek to avoid making more money, then you will never improve in your job, because you're afraid of being promoted and getting more responsibilities. The pay in a job is not commensurate with your workload, but with your responsibilities and decision making levels. To make more money, get more responsibilities, and to get that, you need to think positive and have confidence and self assurance. (Some people think that NLP might help you in becoming more self confident. If you're interested in NLP, so look around and find out more about it. It might work for you.)

Get self-improvement books or self-improvement strategies to help you improve yourself. This just means lifelong learning is important... have the right attitude towards learning and always improve yourself. You can always improve your mind and your attitude. You can even improve your money making skills and strategies. However, it's not all about making money. There is sometimes more to life than just making money, so self-improvement is just for yourself. And your successful career. Cheers!

The final post on this series will be about negotiation skills and tactics. Some of the ideas will be from Nido Qubein and others will be from research I have done on ideas on how to become rich.