Resources

What is a resource and how many are there?

Resources are your main go-to wishing well when you need to do literally anything in your life. Depending on your needs, you’ll need more or less from this wishing well. However, there’s a catch, this wishing well needs to first be built by you!

a source of supply, support, or aid, especially one that can be readily drawn upon when needed.

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According to Wikipedia there are several types of resources (source):

• Economic: a service or other asset used to produce goods and services that meet human needs and wants.
• Biologic: a substance that is required by a living organism for normal growth, maintenance, and reproduction.
• Computer: any physical or virtual component of limited availability within a computer or information management system.
• Natural: resources derived from the environment.
• Human: refers to the human effort in the production of goods and rendering of services.
• Capital: refers to human-made resources created using knowledge and expertise based on utility or perceived value.

… and in each category there’s a subdivision between tangible/physical resources and intangible/non-physical resources.

Why do we need resources?

As an adult it’s necessary that you realize that knowing about your resources is going to be important for the rest of your life. In fact your parent’s life, in one way or another, has always been influenced by the amount of resources they had to work with…and, more often then not, it probably influenced their moods a lot. So, learn about it. We need resources because that’s how we survive.

As the next generation of human adults, the fastest you know about how resources work and how you need to acquire some of these resources as efficiently (and legally) as possible, the better everyone’s future becomes (yes, everyone’s, we’re all sharing some of these resources!).

Which ones do we need to acquire

As individuals we don’t start out knowing about all the resources, on the contrary, we always tend to focus on the few category of resources we actually need in our day to day life. Which is normal. So, when we start out learning about resources (preferably as young as possible), we start out learning about these:

• Financial resources (our financial state)
• Human-made resources (goods & services)
• Human resources (your family members)

Also known as: Household-management.

The more specialized you get in these topics, the better you’ll be at them and the easier your life will become. Most families however don’t actually know how to run their households very well. In part because they lack the knowledge, don’t work together due to communication and/or health issues or because they’re stuck in a loop of never having enough resources to do more than survive.

How do we acquire these resources then?

Sadly, it starts by earning income aka money, and the lowest form of earning money to be more specific: the one where you trade in your precious life energy and time working for 10$/hour, sometimes 6 days a week.

It’s not fair but it is where most of us start-out. Those who didn’t have to start out like this, you’re spoiled. Lucky you (…or are you?).

There are multiple other ways of earning income, in fact there’s three of them:

• Active income, also known as earned income (the one where you trade in your time and energy for money)
• Passive income (the one where you do a lot of hard work at the beginning so you can reap the rewards for the rest of your life via the acquisition of assets).
• and Portfolio income (the one where you earn income by knowing the value of things).

Where to start?

As a beginning adult, the first steps to take as an adult-to-be is to actually switch between all three domains in a consistent manner so as to progress in all three. These three domains of resources-gathering, health-maintenance and self-growth are three different cycles that interlock with one another, so you can’t actually separate them. This is, I believe, also one of the main reasons as to why adulting is perceived as hard. Even when you do well in one domain, without the other two domains you’re going to feel as if you’re still lacking.

No need to stress! This website is going to be build in such a way that everyone will have more of an idea where to start!

Will I have a disadvantage if I have a disorder or disability as an adult?

That depends. Most will say that it will. However, as an older sibling from someone with severe ADHD and who is on the Autism Spectrum, I believe that to be untrue.

In my experience, people with disorders or disabilities know their limitations better than those who don’t and more often than not, it actually gives them an edge over those who don’t know.

Personally, I don’t know entirely whether this is based in science so I will have to research this. I do know this though: this is your life. Are you really going to let your disorder and/or disability sabotage you in your living?

Throughout history, the famous and most credible people across the globe had something “off”, they all shared a thing they had in common: they conquered the odds built within them. Yes, things are harder for you, I know they were for me too (for I share some disorders with my younger sibling) but are you really going to let life slip you by like this? You already know how though it is, why be afraid that you might fail? You were basically trying to ‘life’ with one arm already tied to your back your entire life! If you ask me, that’s already pretty hardcore.

So my advice to you is this: it’s only going to get harder and we already decided that you have to ‘life’ with one arm on your back, let’s humor the rest of the world, let’s show them we can do even more by being an even better adult. We already know why we want to be an adult, maybe it’s up to us to set an example that there’s effectively no excuse not to learn the basics of adulthood.