Below are 10 transformative ways to increase your worth at work, among friends, in your family and in your community.

1. Subscribe to Excellence: It is a common saying that "Whatever your hands find doing is worth doing well". You increase your worth by activating excellence in all you do. Give your best to whatever your hands find doing. Let people know that you will always deliver to the best of your ability.

2. Be Time Conscious: Those who are not time conscious not only reduce their worth, but also cause a crack to their integrity. Get to meetings at least 10 minutes ahead of the scheduled time. Never waste people's time. And whenever anyone waste your time,  politely frank at it.

3. Let Your Yes be Yes and Your No be No: Your worth increase when people can trust your words. The world today lacks people who can tell full fledge truth. Once people know you with the truth, you become a treasure.

4. Know your value: Never settle for the less, no matter what. It is not pride. It is called knowing your value. Never price yourself too cheap.

5.  Be strategic with your friendship: "Show me your friend and I will tell you who you are". As simple as this sentence is, it goes a long way in determining a man's worth. One rich man among nine poor men, they are all poor. But, one poor man among nine rich men, that are all rich. If you won't respect the poor man because of his financial status, you will respect him because of his friends. Your network determines your networth.

6. Be Updated: A man is only limited by the level of information he possess. The only way to make the whole world listen to you is by having an information the world don't know of. You increase your worth by possessing information that is up to date. Social media pages becomes a must visit daily for people because it contains information they don't have yet. By reading books in your line of discipline, you become updated and a custodian of information that others don't have.

7. Be A Solution: There are lots of challenges in the world and the community we all belong to. Highlight the challenges peculiar to your community and see if there is anyone you can provide solution to. There you go!

8. Share Your Knowledge: Contrary to some people's opinion that "You become so important if you are a custodian of a knowledge that no one possess". You become more important and increased in worth when you share your knowledge with others. The more you give out, the more you get back. Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.

9. Be The Reason For People's Happiness: At work, make it fun when it needs to be. At home, be relaxed, participate, smile and make others smile. In the community, be cool and easy going with people.

10. Be A Good Listener: Everyone has so much to say, but there are few listeners. Those who even listens only listen to reply and not to understand. You can increase your worth in two weeks by becoming a good listener than you can take years trying to get people to be interested in you. You'll never know how close you are to a million dollar idea unless you are willing to listen.

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so apt. Some people will rather keep nagging about how people don't respect them. This is the way to go