Today’s message from your angel is about asset management.  Why is it necessary to talk about this, you wonder? There are many things you have in your life that are assets and you cannot afford to lose them. Could be your family, your friends, and the things you have accumulated along the way. Relationships themselves are investments and you have to know how to manage them if you desire long healthy ones. Your angel understands the fragility of such things and if you mishandle them, you can lose them forever.  

Asset management should not be looked at with the context of having fear of not losing something, but with the desire to make it better and have noticeable growth even as investing continues.  Your angel will guide you through different ways on how asset management can teach you some life lessons-which will align you to better manage things that are important to you.

Asset Management Is Not An Add-on.

Sometimes companies need to have low costs which can make them overlook creating a lifetime value. Asset management can help gather data on what the next steps should be to increase revenue for the company. However, some companies view asset managers as a threat because they think they will limit their organizational goals or they won’t understand their way of doing things. Later on, when things start going haywire, or they don’t understand what to do next, they start trying to incorporate asset management to save the business from falling.  As much as some things could be expensive, it is better to start implementing them from the start, to prevent avoidable situations. 

Similarly, in life, you have to value the assets you have right from the beginning. Take a scenario, where you are married to someone and you have never prioritized them from the beginning, you do not give them your time, you do not communicate and you are not invested in cultivating the relationship. Your spouse will learn to live with this and might end up not expecting anything from you. By the time you see that the relationship is dying, it might be too late because the problem was there right from the beginning.  It can be hard to salvage such situations and it might require extra commitment to do so.

Your angel wants you to appreciate things right from the beginning, to be consistent in how you deal with people. Do not over-deliver because this might drain you, just perform to a standard that is doable and comfortable to you. A level you know you can maintain. You cannot try being kind, way down the road. Do it from the start, this is a conscious choice you have to make because sometimes you will feel like it, and sometimes you will not. 

You Have To Understand The Needs Of Others First.

As an asset manager, understanding a client’s needs is very relevant.  You cannot apply similar skills across all clients. Every client will have different preferences, needs, and restrictions that will change continually.  Asset managers know that they need to know the culture of the firms they are working for. For example, social media can work for one organization and be taboo for another, which prefers texts or email. The managers know that because they engage stakeholders from different generations, they have to use a mix of various communication and delivery methods to meet the needs of their clients. You have to understand what the other person needs too; it is not just about you.

Have you ever met someone in your life that you do not bother to explain things to anymore? Because they simply won’t ‘get it!’  It is easy to be so focused on yourself and what you want that you miss the chance to listen to the other person.  Imagine being with a friend who always offloads what they are going through and what is happening in their lives and hardly gives you any chance of talking. That doesn’t feel good, and at some point, you won’t see the need to see them as often because you don’t feel heard. Learn to give people a chance, to allow them to express themselves, without you interjecting with your own life.  It is okay to forget about your own issues for some time. It is self-less to try and help someone else solve the issue they are going through first. Your angel urges you to offer a shoulder and be a friend to someone who needs it.

Add Value Wherever You Go.

In order for any initiative to succeed, it needs to have a purpose. You cannot implement a strategy just for the sake of it if it is not helpful.  Asset managers understand that they have to communicate their strategies properly so that they can have effective results. Asset management can be complicated and confusing even to savvy investors. The managers understand the need of providing valuable information, be able to lead, educate and be able to show a point of view. There is a need to add value for any asset manager to continue working with a company.

Similarly, in life, you have to be a resourceful person if you want to be invaluable. You cannot settle for just anything and expect others to seek you. Take an example where you are working in an organization and you joy ride most of the time. If your fellow colleagues cannot point out what you do, then you have to go back to the drawing board and find what you need to do to fix the situation. In life, the most comfortable thing to do is to not grow. You don’t have to do anything about that. Your angel insists on the need to be uncomfortable when you see yourself stagnating. Learn and never stop adding to your knowledge. Choose to add value to your relationships, to yourself, and to everyone who is around you. Let your trademark in life be the things people can say you did. The memories you gave and the lives you changed for the better.

It is not extraordinary people who do good things and make changes, it is you, by choosing to be different and creating a life worth living.