By Paul Adams, an EO Seattle member and President of Sound Financial Group

During my 16 years of helping professionals and entrepreneurs plan for the future, I have come up with three assumptions that prevent most entrepreneurs from building a robust, personal balance sheet as they build their businesses. They are as follows:

1. My business is the best possible place for me to invest my money
2. Upon the sale of my business, it will give me enough assets to retire
3. Anyone who disagrees with the above two points cannot be listened to or trusted, or they do not understand what it means to be a business owner