Ownership in the digital age starts with building a personal enterprise
It's no secret. Technology has disrupted how we do things across life from personal to professional. The blurred lines of the digital age made some things easier and then gave us back a new set of decisions to make for ourselves.
To stay ready in the digital age, measuring your influence is vital to continue to be relevant.
What is a personal enterprise?
A system you build to keep your value functional and growing no matter the title you currently occupy. I believe you rent the title you’re in and own the value of it.
To keep your system functioning and growing, I’d like you to think of it as your value real estate portfolio. Your responsibility here is to own the process for building and maintaining it. Having this container to monitor your investments keeps you ahead of your competition and clear on the value you bring to the marketplace.
How do I track my value?
The real estate and car industries do a great job at appraisals and tracking market price value to hold or sell. Whether you are an employee, entrepreneur or between both you should borrow their habit of tracking value with the intent to resell. Your skills are the product or service you sell to the market as an employee or entrepreneur. How you influence people with your skills makes you more marketable in your industry.
Knowing how strong your influence is helps you evaluate your competitiveness and the position you take up in the marketplace.
The big goal of a personal enterprise is to take control of how your skillset is being utilized and benefit from it first. Kind of like a pay yourself first model like in finance. That’s what you do with your skills. Your personal enterprise gets first dibs on the value of your skills and your profession gets the overflow. Your employer, as an employee or entrepreneur, should not be the only party to know how to use your expertise.
To start building your personal enterprise, I want you to start looking at where your value resides. The places I search for first to locate value is in your
Resources
Relationships
Projects you’ve worked on
Investments you’ve made in yourself
Insights from events you’ve attended
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Pro tip: Having all of the places your value is stored in one place helps fast track decision making, identify if opportunities are in alignment and negotiate for what you need.
How are you maximizing your value?
This one took me the longest to learn so I’m sharing this with you. In my journey of value, I solved the most problems from situations that were forced upon me. Because I didn’t discover the problems I solved by myself, by default my value was decided for me by other people from my family, employers and society. It took a lot of carrying other people’s insecurities and being fed up for me to realize I have an option to decide my path and can maximize my value.
Here are some questions to evaluate if you’re maximizing your value
What problem do you solve?
Who usually has this problem for you to solve?
What makes you the person to solve these problems for this population?
The time to get ready is behind us. It’s time for you to stay ready. Take care of your journey with decisions and strategy. Protect your investments by building a personal enterprise that you own. You are the only person who is going to care about what you’re building as much as you do.
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