Are You Ignoring Your #1 Asset? With Michael Isom

Companion to the MaxLife episode with Michael Isom

Michael Isom teaches that the most valuable thing you own never shows up in a bank account.

▶ Watch the full episode with Michael Isom for deeper context on how to approach these questions

Your Real Scoreboard

When you check whether you're doing okay in life, what's the first number or thing you look at: your bank balance, your revenue, your weight, or how things are with the people closest to you?

Money in the bankBusiness revenueHow my body looks or feelsMy marriage or closest relationshipHow my kids are doingWhether I learned something today

The Sheet You Can't Sell

List three things you own that you could never put a price on or sell: something you know how to do, a person who's in your corner, an experience that changed you. Which one have you been treating like it'll take care of itself?

Is That Even True

Write down one harsh thing you say about yourself when no one's listening ("I'm not enough," "I always mess this up"). Now answer plainly: can you actually prove it's true, and can you find one time in your life it wasn't?

Betting Where You're Blind

Name one place lately you've put real money, time, or hope into something you don't control and don't really understand (a hot tip, a side bet, a shortcut someone sold you). Why are you in it: because it's genuinely a smart play, or because growing yourself got boring and this felt faster? Isom's test is simple, the wealthy bet where they have control and know the game.

The thing I keep betting on that I can't actually control is ___.

Put It Back On You

Take the bet you named above and redirect one piece of it back into the asset you do control, yourself. Pick one: a skill to sharpen, a book to finish, an hour with the person you've been drifting from. Which one, and what day this week do you start?

Read back what you wrote. The number in your bank account can drop to zero and you'd still have everything in your second balance sheet: what you know, who loves you, what you can do. That's the asset that rebuilds the first one. So which sheet did you spend this week growing, and which one have you been quietly hoping would grow on its own?

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