The Fire List

I wrote the first version of this on a hotel notepad, the cheap kind with the hotel’s logo across the top, in a room that hadn’t been redecorated since the 1940s. I wasn’t trying to be inspirational. I was trying to find out if I had anything left at all.

Here’s the sentence that started it: if it all disappeared tomorrow, here’s what I’d still have. Not your bank balance. Not your title. Not your business. Everything borrowed or rented, gone tonight by someone else’s decision. What’s left standing after that is your real balance sheet, the one that survives a fire.

This isn’t the full audit. Chapter 5 gives you that, and it’s a lot more rigorous than this. This is the gut check that comes first, the one that told me I had more standing in the wreckage than I thought I did.

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