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Something Worth SharingLife Accounting We’ve been having someone come to our home to do a variety of “odd-jobs” recently. While the jobs have slowly been ticked off, I dread the chap arriving at our home. He complains about previous workmanship and can find fault in almost every little thing. Compare this to the team that are laying our drive at the moment and you have the complete opposite: willing, hardworking, always with positive ideas, on time and are a joy to be around. It dawned on me that in life, we have an ever-present ‘balance-sheet’. We have assets and liabilities - not necessarily financial, but emotional. A balance sheet is based on the fundamental equation of Assets = Liabilities + Equity. In life we can view this as Feeling Good & Positive Energy = Drains + Your Time & Effort. Over the past week or so I’ve struggled to hold liquidity! What has drained me, and the time and effort I’ve had to spend, has meant there’s been little left in the Feeling Good column! The trick is to stop, to take a close look at the 3 parts of the equation, make some tough decisions and act on them. This is a constant need - to spot where your positives are coming from and what is draining - along with how much time and effort you’re spending. This is ‘life accounting’ - or to put it another way, to taking account of your life.
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