Net worth

Chapter 81

We always need to be calculating our net worth. Our net worth to the world, our net worth to our job, our net worth to our families. It will help us see what we are doing and the effect that it has on these pieces of our lives. We all do good things to move thing forward in the world, in our work and in our families. We show up! We are engaged! We are creative and insightful and helpful! We are giving and caring and sacrificial. We are generous and ready to share. We are committed and in this for the long run. We help solve gnarly problems and bottlenecks in the flow of life. We offer solutions to the most difficult situations.

These are the great contributions we make to our world and jobs and families. Those are additions we bring. But we all bring subtractions as well. Negatives. Bad habits that tear down these parts of our lives. Some of the ones that I see in me and those around me are pretty bad. The worst one is making fun of or disparaging other employees. In my office, your weaknesses are discussed in an open forum of the office workers, and everyone takes shots. Super negative. Complaining about the work. The work is the work. It pays the bills. Complaining about it is super negative. Your negative outlook. Earl says that he could have the only ticket in a raffle and still lose. This is poisonous in your life. And there are more.

But back to net worth. Once you subtract the bad from the good, that is the net worth.