Appreciating Your Assets

Much of life in the United States runs on oil – and not just in your car’s gas tank. Right now a LOT of oil is floating around in the ocean – threatening to kill off a LOT of marine life and perhaps permanently ruin much of the United States’ southeastern coastline. The company “responsible” seems more concerned about escaping blame than fixing the problem and the U.S. Government doesn’t seem willing or able to step in and do what is needed – including accepting help from anyone else. (more…)

“Ownership” is over-rated – and so is money. Access, use, and control are MUCH more “valuable” and important. It is usually better to “own” very little – but be able to “access”, “manage”, “control”, or have actual, physical, or virtual (temporary or “permanent”) custody of whatever is needed or desired (through properly “structuring” business and personal affairs, agreements, and ideas about “ownership”).

There are MANY different ways people who do not “own” an “asset” (or “resource”) can still benefit from it. (more…)

ASSETS are anything of VALUE. Appreciation means to increase in value. WEALTH begins with APPRECIATING our ASSETS and VALUE. Like “abundance”, WEALTH is having (more than) “enough” of what we need and want. (more…)

Money is neither an asset nor wealth, BUT most people would still like to have “more”.
Having more is not the same as “making” more. (more…)

WHAT would YOU buy if you had a MILLION DOLLARS (or MORE)? (more…)