The Best Self-Help is Free: Making Accomplishments Work for You

This is Chapter 13 of The Best Self-Help is Free, a treatise by Mr. Stolyarov. You can read all chapters of this freely available treatise here.

Having discussed how to increase one's productivity in depth, we now address the question that necessarily follows. What do you do with your output once you produce it? Producing alone is not enough. If you just let your output lie around accumulating dust or taking up computer memory, it will not boost your overall well-being. In order for you to improve your quality of life and become safer, happier, and more prosperous, it is essential to get your accomplishments to work for you - even without your direct supervision or intervention.

Getting your accomplishments to work for you is similar to getting your money to work for you. If you earn cash through your own hard work and let all of it lie around, it will do nothing for you until you actually use it. Having some cash on hand is necessary for addressing uncertainties and engaging in everyday transactions, but you likely want to invest the majority of your money in some kind of financial institution that gives you a steady, virtually guaranteed revenue stream. A bank account that pays interest on your money serves such a function for most people.

Your accomplishments can only work for you in one of two ways. Either you use them, or other people use them. You can gain directly and indirectly from both of these ways - and not just monetarily. Your accomplishments can help procure health, reputation, knowledge, safety, and happiness for you - if you think about how to put them to use.