A whole google

Your contributions have value

Your value has worth

Request your worth

As a child, my dad and I would play a little game. One of us would say I love you, and the other would say how much, then the other person would make up some outlandish way to quantify their love. Here's an example

Me: Daddy, I love you

Him: Oh yeah, how much

Me: to the moon and back

Him: I love you

Me: How much

Him; a google's worth

Your Contributions Have Value.

Did you know that " google" was a number? Its a one followed by a hundred zeros. I’ve never seen this number written out, and I can honestly say I find it hard to conceptualize a Google of anything, but I do understand one of its opposite “nothing”. I understand what it means to have nothing. I understand what nothing feels like. I understand how it feels to have an absence from something and yet inside me there still lies a struggle with this concept. In my mind, I know that contribute to any space that I take up, and yet at times, I've struggled with worthiness.

Your Value Has Worth

"Stand at the door, take a look around how does it look? Does it look better than it did before you came into the room? " This is what my mother use to say to me when I asked her how well I cleaned a room as part of my chores. This simple question fostered an approach I live by still today. How can I do something that would be beneficial to the space? Because of this approach to life, I know that I add value and am working to be better at understanding the worth of the value. I recently had an eye-opening moment in relation to my value.

Request Your Worth

I grew up in a dance company and as a result didn't have experience negotiating my compensation for the performance, lectures, and other expereinces. Almost a decade ago I asked a former company member how much I should charge and I've kept that figure since. In a more recent time, I had to check my anger/frustration that was incorrectly directed at a drummer. It was short-term misdirection because I quickly found out that I was an issue and not him. When asked for his price to accompany a class he quoted the same price that I had given to teach a class, in here lay the issue. Initially, I was like how dare he, so I had to check in with some people I trusted, and his quote was the acceptable rate. The value I had placed on my worth was outdated, no wonder I hadn't made the type of strides I currently desired. I had failed to request my worth. I had not because I asked not. The craziest thing was when I looked back at my most two recent lectures the host offered two to three times my old figure. So the problem in this equation was me. The reason why I wasn't consistently living the experience was that I wanted was because I failed to communicate,

Know your worth In the words of the wise Niche Faulkner: You have not because you ask not.

Your contributions have value

Your value has worth

Request your worth

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- Mya