Use Your Greatest Asset, Your Greatest Resource, and Your Unique Ability

 
Brian Tracy, the self-help author and speaker points out that, “Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.”

Heidi: We all underestimate the power of time as a resource. Not one hour or minute of our lives can be reclaimed.

Sam: Applying your greatest resource (your time) to improving your greatest asset (your personal ability to earn money) is the way to leverage success.

So…what is your greatest asset and greatest resource?

Everyone has unique abilities. It can take awhile to figure out what they are. Do your know what abilities make you special? It’s the skill that you find to be easy and enjoyable. Time flies when you are doing your unique skill. People tell you that you’re good at it, but you shrug it off, thinking, “Anyone could do it. It’s not that hard.” What is your unique ability?

Heidi: My unique ability is writing. In my past, I didn’t take it seriously enough, because it’s fun and satisfying. It took a lifetime of people telling me that I had a special talent for me to start valuing what I have to offer.

Sam: My unique ability is to find creative solutions to financial challenges and partner with others to accomplish goals. I am not good at details, so I find people who can help follow through with my business ideas. This has been a major factor in my successes. For example, our book “TheSmartestWay to Save” would have remained only an idea rather than the force it has already become if I had not had Heidi’s persistence, support, and follow through.

So…do you know what your unique ability is?

(Written by Samuel K. Freshman and Heidi Clingen, authors of TheSmartestWay™ to Succeed Series and TheSmartestWay™ to Save—Why You Can’t Hang on to Money and What to Do About It.)