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Balance Sheet of Life

A reflective accounting metaphor for life: what we carry as assets, what becomes liabilities, and how our choices shape the final statement we present.

The Life Ledger

01
Opening Balance

Our birth is our opening balance.

02
Closing Balance

Our death is our closing balance.

03
Liabilities

Our prejudiced views are our liabilities.

04
Assets

Our creative ideas are our assets.

05
Current Asset

Heart is our current asset.

06
Fixed Asset

Soul is our fixed asset.

07
Fixed Deposit

Brain is our fixed deposit.

08
Current Account

Thinking is our current account.

09
Capital

Achievements are our capital.

10
Stock in Trade

Characters & our morals, our stock in trade.

11
General Reserves

Friends are our general reserves.

12
Goodwill

Values & behavior are our goodwill.

13
Interest Earned

Patience is our interest earned.

14
Dividend

Love is our dividend.

15
Bonus Issues

Children are our bonus issues.

16
Brand / Patents

Education is brand/patents.

17
Investment

Knowledge is our investment.

18
Premium Account

Experience is our premium account.

The aim is to tally the balance sheet accurately.

The goal is to get best presented accounts awards.

Quotes for the Day

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

— Orison Swett Marden

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

— Arthur Ashe

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