National Asset or National Liability

Which are you?

You can't be both. We should all look at our own balance sheet.

How do your scales tip?

Let's look at the definitions from Webster.

Assets a: the property of a deceased person subject by law to the payment of his or her debts and legacies b: the entire property of a person, association, corporation, or estate applicable or subject to the payment of debts

ADVANTAGE, RESOURCE His wit is his chief asset. —sometimes used euphemistically or humorously in the plural to refer to parts of a person's body (such as the breasts or buttocks) that are considered attractive

a: an item of value owned bassets plural : the items on a balance sheet showing the book value of property owned

: something useful in an effort to foil or defeat an enemy: such as a: a piece of military equipment b: SPY

Liabilities

a: the quality or state of being liable was cleared of liability for the accident b: PROBABILITY : something for which one is liable especially : pecuniary obligation : DEBT —usually used in plural business assets and liabilities : one that acts as a disadvantage : DRAWBACK This scandal makes the candidate a liability for the party.

I I ask myself and hope you do the same, "Are my actions an advantage or drawback?

I rationalize to myself about what positive outcomes I am creating for the future. I can't recreate or fix the past, but I can look forward, striving to create value instead of building on weakness that requires life support and energy.

Future individuals will either thrive or struggle due to MY current actions. Only I can decide if I wish to be a liability or an asset. A parasite or a producer. A black hole or a star. I choose to invest in the assets of my mind, health, and the invisible assets of the future.

What are the invisible assets you ask?

Investments that you can't see yet. That's how entrepreneurs make it happen. Michel Jordan was flat dead right when he said.

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and some MAKE IT HAPPEN."

Entrepreneurs build a hotel where there was not one. They build a fence, punch in a new garden, breed new plant varieties, create a market where there is not one, they make reality the business structures that did not exist without them.

It is an IDEA they invest in. And that folks, is the magic that makes entrepreneurs a national asset. They aid in raising all boats through self-interest and collaboration with and for others. That's what Sam Walton, Don Tyson, Mary Kay Ash, and Jeff Bezos did.

If you came here looking for the elusive "key" to success, I just gave it to you. There is no key. All you have to do is walk up to the door, knock, and open it up. Build your own highway and drive a car down it as fast as you can.

The greatest asset is your mind. You can see the invisible structures that YOU need to create.

What can you build that will serve as a national asset for our children, our communities our economies, and our country?

All you have to do is walk through the door, break a little ground, and plant the seed.

Good luck and go Forward.