A Complete Turnaround // Are You a Blessing or a Burden, Part 1

<p>We all want to be blessed. Sure we do – problem is, sometimes we have a bad sense of direction We expect all the blessing to flow in one direction – inwards, to us. Hmm. That’s not how it works.</p> <p> </p> <h4><span style="color: #ff9900;"><strong>Asset or Liability</strong></span></h4> <p>The other day on twitter, I picked up this quote from Dr Tayo Adeyemi in the UK (not sure if I’ve pronounced his surname correctly there) anyhow this quote really caught my eye. This is what he said:</p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;"><em>You are either a blessing or a burden; an asset or a liability; a problem solver or a problem. Your choice!</em></p> <p>I started going through all the people I know, people I’ve worked with, friends, colleagues and you know something, it was really easy to categorise them either on one side of that ledger or the other. Let’s stick with the accounting metaphor. They’re either an Asset or Liability? Hmm … I’m imagining that if you went through the same exercise, you’d find exactly the same thing.</p> <p>Of course, nobody is a complete liability, nor is anyone perfect. I mean, none of us are. We all contribute to some extent, and we all drain to some extent as well. That’s because firstly, none of us is perfect and secondly, we’re all good at different things. But even taking all those things into consideration, on balance, weighing all their pros and cons – some people overall are an asset, others are liability. Some are a blessing, others are a burden. Some are problem solvers, and some are, plain and simple, part of the problem!</p> <p>So then … then I began to imagine a world in which more of us become assets than liabilities. In which more of us become more of a blessing than a burden. Just imagine how different this world would be if that started to happen. You and I aren’t necessarily in a position to change the world. We can’t change every one of the 7-point-something billion people on the planet. Hey, we can’t even change our wives or our husbands or our children.</p> <p>But there