BECOME AN ASSET NOT A LIABILITY

BECOME AN ASSET NOT A LIABILITY

In families, communities, organizations, institutions and countries; there are two broad groups of kinds of people with these characteristics-assets and liabilities. The assets are those people who have contributed significantly in the improvement,  beauty and splendor of their environments and fellow men while the liabilities have not only done nothing but they are a serious drain on the strength and achievement of others .If you are interested in self -improvement and development then you have to decide early and quickly whether you want to be an asset or a liability.

Ask yourself in your family, community, organization or country what role, responsibility you play. Do you positively impact the production of wealth and the general well-being of your people? Do you encourage others, help them ,contribute in solving problems and in preserving the wealth of your people? In your generation do you take the generational challenge to improve on what your ancestors and elders have achieved and help ushering a new generation-a better version of the best your people have left as their footstep under the sun? Do you take up the responsibilities which make your community better? If your answer is a YES, then you are indeed an asset to your people.However,if what you do and who you are the opposite of what has been described above, do not despair because there is something you can do about it.

When you consciously decide to become an asset and not a liability, you choose to pick up skills, to improve yourself and to be pro-active and become part of the solution to problems. You therefore, add value to yourself and the group and not just be navel –gazing. This kind of decision is a self –improving movement from the negative to the positive. When you stop being complacent, lazy and on the receiving or consuming level, you join the group of the assets and abandon the liability group.

Take the challenge-be an asset.

By EDWARD NGUNDU