Ever notice that if you go and decide one day that you're going to raise your rates, that you're going to demand a higher salary, a bigger raise, more compensation, or just more from somebody else in any part of your life, that when you do that, the fear that you had of people completely rejecting you very often is not met by people rejecting you, but is met by people saying, what?
What took you so long?
We will happily give you everything you're asking for.
And if you don't get that response, ever wonder what's really happening there because you know you're worth it?
Well, it turns out there is something beneath this phenomenon that is really driving it that may not be so obvious.
And I've had some experiences and conversations recently that brought this to bear, and I wanted to talk a bit about it.
And that's where I'm going in today's good Life project.
Along with that, in our weekly good life science update, we're diving into some kind of fascinating new research on traffic noise and how that affects your risk for heart disease.
So city dwellers or people who are around a whole bunch of noise, maybe even loud office noise during the day, take note.
You will want to hear this.
Okay, so here's the deal.
I've been an entrepreneur for a whole lot of years.
I've also worked in big companies or massive government organizations, bureaucracies.
And there comes a time in everybody's sort of work existence where they want more, they know they're worth more, and you want to be compensated for it.
Maybe you're an employee and you're thinking to yourself, I deserve a raise or I deserve a bigger bonus.
Maybe you are a private practice person, professional, a therapist, a coach, a yoga instructor, a physician, whoever it may be.
And you know, you've been doing this for a long time.
You know you've gotten really good.
You know, you are worth a lot more than you are charging, very likely because you haven't raised your rates in a really long time.
And very often that is based on a massive fear that people abandon you because that's the most important thing.