Today's video actually taught me something about the difference between being somebody who overdelivers and crossing the line into being devalued for your work.
Overdelivering is giving more than you've been paid for or giving more than you've asked for. But there are ways to do it where you do something in a faster time than people expect, or you throw in bonuses or extras, but people know about it. They're expecting it.
Vs. spending copious amounts of time on something and not actually charging for it.
Do you know if you actually are being valued? Well, people are happy to pay for the work that you have done, and it's easy for you to communicate that they owe you extra money for extra services. When you're completed with a project and you've been paid, you feel resentful, hurt, or undervalued. You feel like you should have asked for more money because actually the client got it for a steal. A day later, you find out that somebody else charged double the amount of money for the same work that you did.
Don't fall into that trap.
Give yourself an audit every now and then to ask:
- What are you giving without actually charging for?
- Are you actually overdelivering?
- Are you devaluing your time and your services?