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Not sure how to achieve your goal? Try this, it will show you how much you actually DO know: 1️⃣ Write down your goal Example: get a pay rise in 3 months. 2️⃣ Write down the biggest 10 actions you can think of that will get you the pay rise. Example: ✅Start actively supporting all my colleagues and offering help ✅Tell my boss I want to earn a pay rise next quarter and ask for his input on what projects he needs done quickly and thoroughly ✅Offer input in meetings ✅Look at my team's goals and assess which ones we might struggle with. Propose a few ideas to address that. 3️⃣ Start doing those actions. Don't worry if you can't come up with 10 right away. Start with as many as you can think of. Get working on them. More ideas will come up as you do so. If you need help brainstorming, message me. Love, Monica #howtogetapayrise #achieveyourgoals

Here’s a fact. Life doesn’t wait for payday. To make that point, here’s a list of 10 ways even the most mindful savers can be thrown into stress and distraction...ten challenges that make it hard for them to show up on the job or do their best work. 🩺 Medical whoopsies - Because your body doesn’t check the calendar before deciding to put itself at the top of your todo list. ⛽️ Commute Quest - The Gas Price Rollercoaster - Embark on the daily journey requiring fuel or fare, where the price of gas bounces and jumps in unexpected ways that might just unsettle your stomach. 👶 Kiddo Keepers - The adorable little bosses with a strict payroll schedule for their personal assistants. 🧫 Pet Pantry Panic - When your furry overlords demand tribute, payday, or no payday. 🧑🔧 Car Care Conundrums - Because your car has a sense of humor and loves a good "break down before payday" joke. 🎓 Academia Adventures - Where school fees and surprise projects embark on a quest against your wallet. 🏫 Student Loan Labyrinth - The monthly trek through the financial forest and principal amount pitfalls. 📱 Lost or Broken Cell Phone - That moment of dread when your digital lifeline goes suddenly silent. 💸 Tax Trolls and Their Sneaky Surprises - These trolls delight in springing the surprise that you owe more gold than expected. 💍 Engagement Escapades & Wedding Wonders - The magical journey from popping the question to planning the big day, where the path is paved with love, joy, and unexpected expenses that don’t wait for your bank account’s blessing. There you have it, an updated list of whimsical, yet real, challenges that don't wait for payday. 💚 Interested in GoDo, the no-cost program that helps everyone in your company win the money chase? Let’s chat! And thanks, Duane Spivey, for the post inspiration! Image by ChatGPT #FinancialWellness #MoneyManagement

😬 Got the "no" on that pay raise request? Don't fret! It's not the end of the world; it's just time to get a little creative. 🎭 Here are some cheeky alternatives to consider: 1. 💪 Power Up Your Skills: Invest in professional development and become so indispensable, they'll HAVE to give you that raise! 💼🔥 2. 💡 Prove Your Worth: Show your impact. Document your successes, and let your results be your raise request! 📈🏆 3. 🚀 Side Hustle Extravaganza: Explore your passion project and turn it into a side hustle that could supplement your income. 💡💰 4. 📈 The Title Twist: Sometimes, a shiny new job title can come with more perks. Negotiate a title change that reflects your true value! 🌟👑 5. 🧘♂️ Work-Life Balance: Negotiate for more flexible hours, remote work, or extra vacation days. Quality of life counts, too! 🏖️🏡 6. 💼 Perk Up Your Benefits: Ask for additional benefits like gym memberships, wellness programs, or other non-monetary perks. 🏋️♀️🍎 7. 💰 Moonlighting Magic: Consider a part-time gig that helps you reach your financial goals. Just make sure it doesn't clash with your day job! 🌙💼 8. 🗣️ Talk Transparency: Have an honest conversation with your boss. Ask what it would take to earn that raise in the future. 🤝🔍 9. 🌍 Explore New Horizons: If all else fails, start looking for opportunities elsewhere. Sometimes, the best raise is a new job! 🌠🌆 Remember, not getting that raise doesn't mean your career journey has hit a dead end. 🛤️ It's just a chance to take the scenic route! 🏞️ What's your cheeky solution to the no-raise dilemma? Share your wisdom below! 💬💡 #CareerAdvice #PayRaise #CreativeSolutions 💸😉

One of the significant challenges for low- and middle-income employees is inadequate or delayed payment. The week before payday, often referred to as "Mampara week," can be especially tough, with limited food and no savings. The inability to afford food can significantly impact work performance, leading to irritability and lack of focus. There are varying degrees of hunger, from Let’s also look at the different stages of hunger or lack of food 1)     Hunger, but you have food to eat, at any moment you can warm your food or collect it and eat it, 2)     Hunger with no ready food to eat, you’re at the office, but you know when you get home food is there, and it’s less stressful 3)     Hunger where there is no food at all, at the very least you have maize only and salt nothing else to eat. However, you know on this day you will get paid and be able to put something on the table. This stage opens a door to debt as you most likely go to a shark loan or borrow from someone. 4)     No food ready to eat or to collect, no food when you get home, no means of any income on a set date, this is poverty when you will find yourself doing something that you would not normally do. You will do it for survival, which might lead to being in a situation that compromises your belief system. Worse case is in the event you are sick or chronic illness you can’t take meds on an empty stomach. 

My first job paid me peanuts—$15 an hour! (When I joined LinkedIn, such posts would annoy me to the core.) I used to think such people are ungrateful and only here to brag for various reasons: 😣I mean, in my country, it's 80% of people's dream to earn such figures as most people dont even earn that much for their 8 hour shift 😣I mean, at the time, I hadn't even got a client willing to pay that much. 😣I felt ashamed to build my brand knowing others are considering my desired pay peanuts But I realized self-pity wouldn't take me so far. I started connecting with such people to learn from them and get to know them better. And for the first time, I got interested in their cost of living and was shocked that with $15, I could afford four or five healthy meals, while in the US, this is one meal and maybe not such a healthy one. I realized he or she could be earning ten times more than me, but we're affording the same lifestyle Of course, this did make me understand why such people lament and complain, and of course, they aren't ungrateful as I earlier thought I totally understood where they're coming from 🤗 I have gone to get the highest paying client—$40/hr, and this wasn't for long-term projects, as those have lower rates than that (I know someone is reading this and feeling, 'Oh girl, you're underpaid.') Trust me am trying 😘 Others are grinning at this post, as they feel it will help others justify the low pay for communities in Asia, Africa, etc. But we must address the elephant in the room: Should companies or businesses pay for skills/experience, or is location the determining factor? Should a marketer in the US earn the same amount as a marketer in Kenya(putting all factors constant experience, skills etc)? No judgement Let me know in the comment section

Imagine a world where every interaction, every meeting, and every digital exchange is infused with positivity and well-wishes. What if, in our professional networks, we transcended the usual formalities and genuinely wished success, happiness, and growth for each other? This isn't just about being polite—it's about creating a ripple effect of goodwill and positive energy that elevates our collective spirit. Let's make a pact, right here, right now: to transform our professional journeys into pathways of mutual encouragement and shared victories. Why settle for mere transactions when we can be catalysts for transformation? Join me in turning this vision into our reality. 

How to Survive 42 Days Without a Salary: A Humorous Guide 🕵️♂️ Day 1-7: The Denial Phase Convince yourself it’s just a glitch in the payroll system. Check your bank account every 5 minutes. Eat all the snacks in your house, you know, for emotional support. 🧘 Day 8-14: The Resourcefulness Phase Start getting creative with your meals. Ramen noodles become gourmet with the right attitude and a sprinkle of imagination. Rediscover your love for public transportation. Walking is great for the environment and your health! 🧹 Day 15-21: The Decluttering Phase Sell things you don’t need. That treadmill you bought during the lockdown? It’s now a clothes hanger. Sell it! Become a minimalist. Who needs 7 pairs of shoes anyway? 👨🎤 Day 22-28: The Hidden Talents Phase Offer your talents to the world. Can you juggle? Sing? Knit? There’s probably a market for that! Become a freelancer. Your friends will definitely pay you for your amazing PowerPoint skills, right? 🏠 Day 29-35: The Homebody Phase Host potluck dinners. Your friends bring the food, you provide the location. Win-win! Netflix and chill (literally). It’s time to catch up on every series you’ve missed. Just make sure you’re using someone else’s account. 🚀 Day 36-42: The Acceptance Phase Accept that you’re basically a budgeting ninja now. Share your wisdom with the world. Write a LinkedIn post about your adventure. Make it funny. (See what I did there?) Remember, humor is the best way to deal with challenging situations. Keep smiling, and before you know it, payday will be here! 💪😄 #SurvivalGuide #NoSalaryNoProblem #LifeSkills #Humor #PaydayPrep

This might be controversial, but what the heck. It’s too important to ignore. I talk about money a lot. Possibly more than some, and there are several reasons for this, but those reasons are never because I want to complain or brag. I talk about money because I truly, deeply believe in transparency, something I feel is sorely lacking in both personal and professional spheres. My professional journey started with a series of seriously underpaying jobs, and because I couldn’t find precise salary standards online, I didn’t really do much about it. I didn’t know better. And so my family did with less. I made do with less. And I was okay with it, sort of, simply because I thought others in my field were in the same boat. Now, before you start shoving Glassdoor etc. links in my face, you try and find a market rate for shift-work remote journalism for a religious news outlet or full-time, flex-hours, work-from-home content writing that “allowed” me to save time and money on commutes, childcare, and businesswear. Not exactly your standard industry setups, at least not when I got started. And so, when I found myself looking for a new position (before shifting to full-time solopreneurship), I didn’t know what my salary expectations should be. I just knew I needed to ask for more. The same was true for establishing a pricing structure for The Marketing Storyteller. I tried looking online, but the numbers were vague. Even vaguer were the answers of others in the industry: “You need to know your worth!” they said. Well, how can I know my worth if no one is being transparent about the market rate? How can I position myself within a market rate with flexible limits I don’t know about? Why is it that our industry is so hush-hush about pricing, when you can go to websites like Zap and compare prices for all sorts of items, to better understand their worth and make smarter decisions (rhetorical question, of course)? While I understand that people in content are vague about pricing because they don’t want their competition to get the upper hand, something’s got to change. If we don’t talk about money, two results are evident - those who serially underprice despite being talented will burn out from the sheer volume of work they need to take on to make ends meet - fast. And those who price themselves decently will (and do) become subject to the scorn of potential clients who are never taught the real value of the deliverables they request. This race to the bottom has to stop. We need to support each other. We need to be transparent about the value content brings to businesses, and make sure that value is reflected in the compensation we receive. We need to talk about money. No iffs, ands, or buts. #TheMarketingStoryteller #contentwriter #transparency

This article has really got me thinking this morning. It's sometimes uncomfortable working in TA/HR with access to sensitive data such as salaries - I do wonder if being transparent about them across the business is the answer? It would definitely have an impact, possibly even detrimental in initial release of the data however, long term, I do think it could result in driving higher performance from employees and also healthy movement with people leaving/exploring new opportunities. The latter also being something that it is often seen as a negative/taboo subject of conversation. #paytransparency

Would you consider becoming a creator for extra income? A lot of people are trying to figure out how to be a creator and how to make money as a creator. Most of the time, the conversation is focused on how to be a full-time creator. That is an awesome goal if you can reach (hard but possible) but I think there is another option. Become a “gig economy creator”. Instead of being a full-time creator focused on building your own brand / community, become a part-time creator helping people with their creative projects. Why? I just read how the gig economy is still expanding. So if you want to create and supplement your income, maybe consider becoming a part-time creator. At the very least, you'll get to dive into your creative side. Thoughts? https://lnkd.in/ge8FsgjX