Your real capital

What is this real wealth we need to recognize, value, talk about, increase, multiply and share. When is the last time you really looked at your personal capital? Not in your bank account or stock portfolio or pension plan but in your very self. Who you are and what you know? What can you do? What could you create? How could you use all your talents right where you live, or anywhere in the world, now that distance is less of a barrier than it has ever been before?

Aren’t there ways we could actually be kinder, nicer, gentler, quieter, a better listener, a thinker, an inventor, an artist, a poet
a musician, an inspiration for someone, an encourager, a grower, a healer, an advocate for someone who can’t speak for himself or herself? Sing a song, whistle a tune, and smile at someone you don’t know. Say a kind word to someone who looks sad. Are there ways we could even give a portion of our services, or exchange them, with someone in a particular need?

Your real capital lies in who you are, in what you can do, in the heart of your being, in your hopes and dreams for the future, in
the goodness that is within you. Dredge it up out of the reservoir
that is your life. You will begin to see how rich you really are.
Then put it on display for others to see and recognize. Put it into some kind of action. Grow it. When you do, the rest of the world
will see it too.

From Gramma Z Oct. 24, 2009