I am not my salary. You are not your salary. You are worth so much more.

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I finished listening to The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life’s Direction and Purpose which is narrated/hosted by Oprah Winfrey and includes segments from her interviews on Super Soul Sunday. The book is an absolute delight on audio and it’s only about 3 hours long which is a perfect commitment.

There are a number of wonderful moments in the book. I chose to focus on this one today for two reasons:

1. I am building out a cohort based coaching program that I’m planning to launch in May — this concept and some exercises around it are definitely going to be in that program.
2. I am focusing on finance and accounting systems for my business and my personal life since April is Financial Literacy month. I’ll be writing quite a bit about money and finance — but also about our relationship to money and finance. I think this fits nicely in the relationship to money category.

A great place to start is to remember that you are not a number — you are not your salary. Oprah shared some stories on her early jobs in chapter 9 of the Path Made Clear. That is where she said, “I am not my salary.”

At many times in my life, I’ve let my salary and my job title and all the other trappings of the 9 to 5 “real world” define me. Yet, the other…