The Power of Value

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/value

: the amount of money that something is worth : the price or cost of something

: something that can be bought for a low or fair price

: usefulness or importance

Isn't this completely wrong?  I wonder what a little kid would say if you asked them what value meant and I'm talking about like a 10 year old kid or maybe even a 13 year old raised in the suburbs of middle America.

IN MY OPINION (IMO - which took me forever to understand, always just breezed past it) this definition and a lot of people's definition makes value calculable in dollars.

Are you successful once you achieve a $100,000 salary a year?  Or when you FINALLY reach $1,000,000?  You're a MILLIONAIRE.  KABOOOOM!!!  What do you think your happiness percentage will be once you reach that goal?  Is there a 100% you will be truly happy?  What would you do if you reached it?  Can't you do that right now?  What will you do and how much money does that ACTUALLY take?  

I want to live in a SFO apartment for $5,000 a month or $60,000 a year  cause I'm a gangster.

I want to be able to fly all over the world at any time which let's say is $10,000 a year.

I want to take an Uber EVERYWHERE because I dislike driving.  Who knows, but can't be more than $20,000 a year and that's definitely way over but I want to be driven like a boss.  I want to eat like a beast, who the fuck cares $100,000 a year - JUST. ON. FOOD.  Mostly lobster and Kobe beef.

60 +  10 + 20 + 100 + 100 (a salaried 100k job just for fun) = $290,000 a year for me and I'll tack on $10k to spend on my nieces and the nephew.  $300,000 a year to live a lifestyle I just threw out there.  That's possible, right?  

So a more realistic goal is to be like $300k rather than be a millionaire cause then I'd have whatever I want in LIFE and more.

Back to the power of value...  I've got an interview in 3 minutes and I'm sitting here thinking about the power of value.  How I can add more value to my life and more importantly add value to other people's lives.  That's something I will conscious do from now on and I think you should too.  Actually, I know it.  Go and add value to other people because it will only enlighten you.

A. Trinh