Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 11:28 pm
Adding value is rewarding, and it looks so natural that we are allways striving to do it. {Governments like adding value too because it easy taxable (sales tax, value added taxes)}
To discuss I have made following categories of adding value
A You add value to yourself by absorbtion insights from others (eg Jacobs book) and then applying it by doiing. Learning, walk the talk.
B Mending/Maintaining things, so that its value will stretch over a longer periods. Tending your health belongs to this category
C Advising others? Works only if the other is allready seeking the same ideas. Raising children belongs also to this category
D Creating litteraly new values: construct something from scratch, creating a (vegetables) garden, making clothes, writing a book, making/playing music yourself etc
E By working for others you add value to them, and it can give you a good/neutral/bad feeling (sometimes it adds also value to yourself) as you exchange a part of your (limited) lifetime for money
F (D2) By investing your money in stocks/deposits/bonds/precious metals you expect/hope those things are adding money to your investments, but (to me) it don’t feels you are adding value.
I suppose I am overlooking categories (please add).
But what I want to discuss is which one gives you the most satisfaction.
For me its D followed on a distance by A and B
To discuss I have made following categories of adding value
A You add value to yourself by absorbtion insights from others (eg Jacobs book) and then applying it by doiing. Learning, walk the talk.
B Mending/Maintaining things, so that its value will stretch over a longer periods. Tending your health belongs to this category
C Advising others? Works only if the other is allready seeking the same ideas. Raising children belongs also to this category
D Creating litteraly new values: construct something from scratch, creating a (vegetables) garden, making clothes, writing a book, making/playing music yourself etc
E By working for others you add value to them, and it can give you a good/neutral/bad feeling (sometimes it adds also value to yourself) as you exchange a part of your (limited) lifetime for money
F (D2) By investing your money in stocks/deposits/bonds/precious metals you expect/hope those things are adding money to your investments, but (to me) it don’t feels you are adding value.
I suppose I am overlooking categories (please add).
But what I want to discuss is which one gives you the most satisfaction.
For me its D followed on a distance by A and B