Change How You're Paid, Change Your Life

When you value your time, your life will match your values.

Your life undeniably revolves around the way you are paid. Believe it or not, the key to reinventing yourself is reinventing how you get paid.

Entrepreneurs, Executives, Employees, Everyone:

Your available time is lost and won in pricing and how you get paid (delivery of value).

How you deliver value (we already know you will) determines your availability to your family, to yourself, to purpose, and to lifestyle.?

A better business model (that expands your autonomy and availability) is the best present you can gift your family.

Buy my book Anti-Time Management to learn how to integrate a new business model into your life.

HOW TO DELIVER VALUE DIFFERENT

...IN ALIGNMENT WITH YOUR VALUES

I was twenty-four years old, newly married, just finishing college and poorer than dirt.?

I went to pitch one of my own stupid ideas to an investment banker—a multi-millionaire who had achieved success many times over.?

He listened intently as I went over my business plan, then he leaned back in his chair and told me that I reminded him a lot of himself back when he was in college. Lost in nostalgia, he talked about how exciting and satisfying life had been in those days.?

Like me, he’d been active, happy, enthusiastic, and full of hope.?

Back then, he was living the lifestyle of his dreams.?

He slowly shook his head, and with definite regret in his voice, told me that he had been working his entire adult life, all with the intent of someday getting back to the life he used to have when he was my age—the life my penniless, twenty-four-year-old self was living right then.?

Before me sat a man who had pushed the pause button on his life.

He had put his happiness and his dreams on hold for decades so that one elusive day, after he’d “paid his dues” and “earned his keep,” he could finally live his dreams and be where he had always really wanted to be. Now, here he sat, a lifetime later, still waiting to start living.?

“How much of human life is lost in waiting!” — Ralph Waldo Emerson?

Before my experience with the successful investment banker, I had always aimed to be successful, earn a respectable living, and make my mark on the world. (I still do.)?

But as I looked at the years of regret etched into that man’s face, I thought:

Is this what I’m after??

Is this the success I am seeking??

I knew that I would end up living a life of regret if I too got lost in the busyness of life—lost in waiting.?

Then and there I made a decision: I refuse to achieve “success” at the expense of my life.?

I refuse to achieve “success” at the expense of my life.
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The two — life success and genuine fulfillment—will have to go hand in hand, because I will not keep my head down for the next forty years only to look up at the end and say, “Now I can finally start living!”

CHANGE HOW YOU'RE PAID, CHANGE YOUR LIFE

Don't turn dreams into jobs.

Click here to download the Change How You're Paid worksheet.

Fill out this one-page business model optimizer to help you think through different ways to get paid.

This activity will help you think through your choices to change how you get paid to change your lifestyle and help you move from making goals to making decisions.

Build an Economic Moat Around Final Cause?

Historically, work was locked in where we lived and determined when we could spend our time on personal pursuits or activities, such as family, travel, and hobbies.

In the past and in more traditional jobs, we had to punch a time clock and work at specific times and specific locations. But now, there is far greater flexibility about where and when you can work.?

How you get paid—the activities you get paid for and where you physically need to be to deliver the results—determines your lifestyle.

• How you are paid is the bond that binds you or aligns you with Final Cause.?
• When you value your time, your life will match your values.?
• How you’re paid determines autonomy—the job of a dream is to set you free.?

Change how you’re paid to intentionally build an Economic Moat that protects your ideal way of living, fuels your time availability, and expands your mobility.

Deside HOW YOU DELIVER VALUE within alignment of creating three things: autonomy. ability and availability.        

Notice How These Various Forms of Payment within Your Business Model and Pricing Strategy Can Create VERY Different Lifestyles?
        

Your life should consist of more than commuting, working, eating, surfing the Internet, sleeping and watching TV. Your life should be filled with purpose-driven experiences and projects that bring excitement, passion, energy, and authentic meaning and joy into your life.

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Alignment requires frequent realignment.

If you bake a cake without sugar, you can't expect it to be sweet.

Same with your life.

You can't expect to live a life of values if you keep telling yourself that one day you'll live them.

Bake in your values from the start.

TAKE your time by baking in your dream every.single.day!

Work from the dream, not toward it.

You rock!

Richie

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Thanks in advance! Means the world.

RICHIE NORTON?is an award-winning author and serial entrepreneur.?An executive coach to CEOs, he is featured in?Forbes, Bloomberg Businessweek, Inc., Entrepreneur,?Fast Company, Business Insider Huffington Post, etc.?Pacific Business News?recognized Richie as one of the Top Forty Under 40 “best and brightest young businessmen” in Hawaii. Richie is one of the world’s leading thinkers and Top 100 coaches as honored by MG100. He is the CEO and Cofounder of?PROUDUCT—an?INC. 5000?company—a global entrepreneurship solution helping businesses go from idea to market with full-service sourcing, product strategy, and end-to-end supply chain. He is the author of several books including?Anti-Time Management,?The Power of Starting Something Stupid?and?Résumés Are Dead and What to Do About It. Richie was born and raised in San Diego before moving to Brazil and then Hawaii. Richie is happily married to Natalie. They have four boys (one son already made his way to Heaven) and they have cared for three beloved foster children. They live on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, with their little dog, Velzy.