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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of IHart Radio.

Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is that we all have relationship and career capital accounts.

Just as financial wealth tends to be built up over time, career capital and relationship capital

accumulates over the long haul, as long as you keep putting in, more than you take out.

But the good news is that many little deposits do add up. Many years ago, I wrote a short e-book called What the Most Successful

People Do at Work. One of the regular habits I identified was to pay in. Career capital, I wrote, is a convenient

way to think about the sum total of one's experience, knowledge, network, and personality characteristics.

When your career capital level is high, you can cash in your chits at any point for a new situation,

to take your career to a new level, or even to take a break without destroying your ability to earn a living.

Successful people develop the discipline of paying into this account every day.

These deposits can take many forms.

One of the most straightforward is to share useful information with people.

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