A Torn Note Is Still Valuable: The Truth About Your Worth That Nobody Talks About
A Torn Note Is Still Valuable By Edwin Ogie Have you ever held a torn Naira note - crumpled, stepped on, maybe stained - and tried to spend it? The trader still accepts it. The bank still exchanges it. The Central Bank still recognizes its full value. A torn note is still valuable. Now think about yourself. Life has crumpled you. People have stepped on your dreams. Failure has stained your confidence. But here is what nobody told you: none of those things reduced what you are worth. The Lie We Believe Somewhere between the rejection and the regret, we start doing math that does not add up. One broken relationship equals I am unlovable. One failed business equals I am a failure. One season of darkness equals my story is over. We treat our value like a stock price — rising and falling with the market of other people's opinions. But your worth was never listed on any exchange. It was deposited inside you before you earned a single thing, before you proved a ...