I am Asset

Issue 010

I want to talk to you today about something I know you already recognize.

And, that may be why it makes this hard to read.

You have known for a long time that you are an asset. You knew it at twenty or maybe closer to twenty-five, before the years and the responsibilities and the quiet little betrayals crowded the knowing out of you. You know it now — in the smallest, most honest part of you. The part that watches you make yourself smaller, and is no longer surprised when you do.

We are not relearning anything here. We are remembering it.

The women you've been studying from a distance — the ones we compare ourselves to in social media or the celebrities we adore. The ones whose income and impact and energy you've quietly been measuring yourself against — they did not get there by accident. They were not more talented. They didn't have more time, more help, more luck.

They decided, much earlier than most of us. That they were the asset. And every choice they have made since has been a slow, deliberate move to keep that decision intact.

Jennifer Lopez doesn't call her health a hobby. She calls it an investment.

Lady Gaga doesn't apologize for choosing her body over the people who want her. She names it: "I would do anything for you, but I have to take care of my body."

These are not motivational quotes. They are operating principles. The women who run their lives by them aren't lucky. They're just earlier.

So — out loud, in your own voice, the way a woman who already believes it would say it. Not the way a woman trying to convince herself would:

My body is an asset. My health is an asset. My confidence is an asset. My mind is an asset. My family is an asset. My relationships are an asset. My experience is an asset. My future self is an asset. This season, in full presence and body confidence, is an asset. I am the asset.

The math you've been doing — the one where you live last on your own list — was always going to come up short. That is not a willpower problem. It is an accounting problem.

The conversation that starts in the body never stays in the body.

The woman who stops negotiating with her own worth doesn't just release weight. She starts charging more. She stops over-explaining. She walks into rooms without auditioning. She raises her standard for the work she takes, the friends she keeps, the conversations she allows at her own dinner table.

Release weight. Stop dieting. Make more money. Have greater impact. This is the ultimate flex.

That isn't four separate things. That is the same woman, finally compounding in every direction at once.

The food piece is real. The body piece is real. And — they were never the destination. They were the foundation. The energy you free up by ending the war with your own body becomes the energy that funds everything else you've been quietly waiting to build.

The reason this hasn't already happened isn't information. You have the information.

It isn't willpower. You have plenty of willpower. You spend it daily, on everyone but you.

It's identity.

The woman who treats herself like the asset is, for most of us, a woman we have not yet been. The body knows this before the brain does. So we keep ourselves a little tired, a little heavier, a little overwhelmed — because that is the shape of the woman we have always known how to be.

Becoming the next one feels like a betrayal of the current one.

It is. That's the whole thing.

You don't have to be her by Monday. You don't have to overhaul anything by the end of this email. You don't have to want it the way other women seem to want it.

You only have to stop pretending you aren't already her.

The coming summer will meet you in whatever body you bring to it. The income coming will arrive into whatever woman is standing there to receive it. The impact you keep almost making will keep almost happening — until the woman making it decides she is worth being.

I want to leave you with this one reflection.

What would your future you, in 10, 20 years be telling you to do differently today? Or would she advise you to keep waiting, hoping and wishing things would change or get easier?

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