The world in this 21st century is divided, but now, fortunately, not by race, religion or belief, but by the purchasing power of people, that is, by the amount of money they have and the productive capacity they own in such a sense.
Facts to keep in mind
And I say fortunately, because making money is not difficult, once you get into the right mindset and put yourself in action for it. And I know that what I have just mentioned may be scandalous to most of the people who may read me, because they do not understand how, if so, there is such a large gap between the number of rich people in the world in relation to the number of people submerged in poverty (and even in the most extreme marginality).
It is certainly not easy to explain it in a way that most people can understand, because they generally suffer from extreme resistance to recognize the real cause of the problem (the root of the problem).
People resist because they blindly believe that the whole problem is the fault of external factors and that they have no responsibility for their financial situation. How could they accept that they have to change in essence in order to acquire wealth and financial freedom? It's easier to blame everything on external factors: The government, the weather, the bad world situation, unemployment, taxes, etc. (name the excuse you want to use).
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No more excuses
The fact is that all these are just excuses for not seeing the reality of things in context. Because certainly, there are many factors external to people that negatively affect its real ability to produce money, and certainly they can be all those mentioned in the previous paragraph, and many others.
However, the issue here is not that there are no real-world obstacles to getting money, not that there are no bumps in the road that hinder people's desire and ability to be productive; the fact is that among all the obstacles that may exist, the lack of properly mentality of the people is the worst of all.
Because the mentality is the most difficult thing to change in people, because nobody wants to be wrong or admit that they have had a wrong or mistaken vision of things at some point in their lives; and much less do they want to admit those mistakes in financial and personal matters. We live in a world where everyone wants to own the reason, and hardly anyone stops to objectively analyze the true cause of things.
"It's a hectic world" is what they say; "This is how I am" is what they allege... "No one is perfect", is what the most knowledgeable say. The fact is that it is well known that, in the face of any problem that we may have in life, recognizing that there is a problem is the first step to solving it.
If you don't believe me, ask those from associations such as "Alcoholics Anonymous" or addiction support groups such as drugs... The first and most important step, if you want to regenerate and straighten out your lives, is to recognize that you have a problem; because everything else will start from there.
Quite simply, most people are addicted to:
1- Not recognizing their own problems.
2- Not assuming their own responsibility for the things that happen to them (according to them, everyone is to blame for what happens to them, except themselves).
3- Making excuses.
Perhaps comparing it to Alcoholics Anonymous may seem a bit far-fetched to some, but I mention it to illustrate the point here, because the underlying problem in this case is, as I have already mentioned, the lack of the right mindset.
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If you don't believe me, think and realize that with the right mindset, poor people become millionaires, and with the right mindset, millionaires become billionaires (that is, they make a lot more money than they already have).
But with the wrong mindset, the poor are poor, and will always remain poor, no matter how much they want to be rich and no matter how much money they have on their hands at any given time. Because they don't even know they have a mindset problem, and that's where the heart of the matter lies.
So no more excuses, if we want to be rich one day (sooner rather than later), then we can't give us the luxury of the excuses. In this sense, the lack of money in our lives will be the indisputable indicator that we are doing something wrong, and that something is wrong in our mentality and in our understanding or vision of things.
Recognizing this, then, we can ask ourselves what is the right mindset to have if we want to make money, make more and more money, and be truly financially and personally free.
Adding value: The golden factor
Understanding the root of the matter well, and once we have already begun to change our mentality, we understand that if we want to have money, we must begin to increase our ability to earn money. And this is all very well and good, but if you really think about it, both money and people's ability to produce it progressively (that is, the ability to generate increasing income) come from one thing that I like to call : The golden factor.
This factor is none other than the fact of adding value with what we do.
Adding value with what we do is what will allow us to achieve the wealth we long for; And to add value, we must increase our efficiency, and start asking ourselves the right questions at the right times. To add value we must set goals and objectives, and we must follow up on them, and to add value, we must definitely take action.
We must stop being simple passive observers, and start being people of action, proactive, intelligent, studious, and efficient.
When we create value in whatever we do to make money, that will be reflected in the final product, and people will recognize it at the end of the day. One of the irrefutable proofs of this that I mention to you, we have it with the great technological companies of the World.
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Can anyone doubt that, for example, companies like Apple and Samsung bring great value to the people of the world?
I, at least, can't doubt it for a second, because the originality, functionality and high quality of the technological artifacts that these two large companies produce and sell is one of the greatest added values that they provide to their users and customers.
This is why these companies are the World leaders in the technology field, even though there are thousands of companies in the sector. But none of the competing companies can offer to their customers what the mentioned two technology giants offer, which is an added value that diffentiate from the rest.
Generating value is a process
In this sense, we can say that generating value is a process, and as such, it must be assumed; and that the true judge who will decide if we are adding value with our vision, mentality and action in our efforts to earn money; they are the people who can benefit in some way from what we do.
We can well say then, that adding value is doing something that is useful for other people, helping to solve the needs that these people have for some good or service.
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And if it turns out that we are really adding value (through a great product, good or service), then our economic success will be guaranteed; but if not, then failure will be the result of all effort.
But sometimes, adding value is not as simple as it may seem in a first moment. Because my idea can be useful, my company can sell things that people need, but the environment and circumstances will determine the added value of my idea and company, and that is something that we must understand very well throughout this process.
To put it through an example; If I set up a food store in a town where there are very few food stores, then I am generating added value, which is having put one more food store in a place where it was needed. This will make people shop at my store on a regular basis and will earn me huge financial gains over time. And this will be because, as I said, I have added value, through the implementation of my business.
Now, the opposite case is more difficult; Because if instead of setting up my food store in a town with few stores, I set up my business in a big city where there are many supermarkets and food stores; then it will be much more difficult to add value there. So there it will not be so easy for my store to be successful, because there is no real need for my store in an essential sense, since there is no shortage of supermarkets or stores, on the contrary, there are plenty of them.
Adding value in this case will require a change of vision based on the prevailing circumstances in the environment where I am trying to add value. So, logically, if I want to add value for my store to be successful in a city full of stores and supermarkets, then I must differentiate the products and services that I offer in my store.
I mean, I must differentiate the products and services that I sell in my store, from those offered by the competition. To do this, I can choose to sell higher quality products, or I can train my store staff to provide more complete and attentive customer service, or I can offer discounts on the products and services that I sell in my store (or all options previous).
The point is that I must offer my customers things that other stores and supermarkets do not offer them, I must give them something that no one else has given them, I must differentiate my store from the rest; and that differentiation will be the added value of my store. And based on that added value, a large number of people will increasingly decide to buy food in my store, instead of buying it in the stores of the competition.
Success in any field is an extremely exciting topic
Notice how I have, throughout the article, talked about various issues that enable and hinder economic success. I started out talking about excuses and the lack of the right mindset, and ended up talking about adding value through what we do. All of this because in reality all these things are very interrelated.
The truth is that I always like to talk about economic success, because it is a subject that I master very well, and from which I am always learning on the process.
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Getting success on Hive
The fact is that all of us who are in this ship called Hive, are looking for wealth and economic success as well. As we well know, on the Hive.blog platform, we can get rewards for the articles we write, but also for the votes and comments we make on the articles of others.
The mentality problem, as I have explained here throughout the post, is that most of the people who get to interact with Hive want immediate economic success; that is to say, they believe that the thing is as easy as just arriving, writing any nonsense and receiving the rewards generated by the curations from others; And it turns out that nothing is further from reality.
If we can verify something through the visualization of the accounts of the users who are obtaining greater success in Hive through their publications, it is that the important thing here is to add value.
And adding value to Hive means being constant when writing content every day; but, it also implies writing quality content. And by quality content, I mean that we must write about interesting topics, with well-written posts, with good spelling, and through a good presentation format. In addition, we must make use of striking images in our posts, which correspond to the themes of what we are writing about, and which are properly referenced to their original source.
But adding value to Hive also, as I said, means interacting with the content of others; and this means that we must read, vote and reblog on other people's articles on the platform. And the comments that we make in the posts of these people must be pertinent, genuine and appropriate to the theme that they deal with in them.
All this is, as we can see through so many successful users, what will allow us to bring real value to Hive. And this will be what ultimately ends up giving us the success we want on the platform.
Summarizing
Let's stop making excuses, let's understand once and for all that success in whatever we do to obtain economic wealth and financial freedom in our lives is possible; and for this reason, we only have to acquire the correct mentality in such a way that we can generate added value in all what we do.
What do you think about the topic discussed? Please comment.
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