A thought by Chad Veach from his book, I Work with People (p. 51). Baker Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon to buy the book.) It does a lot of things but adding worth to you isn't one of them. Chad says, "Believing you have nothing to prove stems from the assurance that whether you succeed or fail, your value as a person remains unchanged. This goes back to understanding the source of your worth, which is your identity as a person, independent of anything else. Your work might be incredible, or it might be terrible, but neither would change your value. Therefore, you don’t have to prove your worth to anyone. You should do your work as well as you can, of course, for multiple and obvious reasons. But your work is not a verdict about your worth." But he goes on, "You have something to offer, and you add value wherever you go. Maybe you don’t hear a lot of gratitude from those you are helping, but that doesn’t change the fact t
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