Giving and Getting

Quite often I run into people who have a real problem with Giving and then Getting something in return.  I was brought up Catholic so I know where some of this guilt comes from.  But if you truly investigate this further, even by reading Biblical passages, you will find that this it is a ludicrous myth about giving without expectation.

If you give and you get, you can now give again.  It is that simple!

In fact the whole cycle of giving and getting or reciprocity is birthed into our very being.  We can’t simply breathe out without first breathing in.  And if we only breathe in (Get) and never breathe out we will die.  Likewise if we only breathe out (Give) and never breathe in we will die.

So if you have a hang up with giving and doing good and getting something for it; get over it!  Humanity needs you to do that.  Charities have been taking from us and giving it all away and then they need to come back again and ask for more which is why most of us are suffering with Donor Fatigue a term I first heard from my good friend Charlie Stuart Gay who founded Humanity Unites Brilliance or HUB as it is fondly known as.

So what’s the answer?  Through this blog I have been preparing you to understand what the new world order is shifting towards.  I started to use a term a while back and I may have been the first one to use it but that doesn’t matter.  That term is Philanthro-Capitalism.  And I invite you to read about that next!

Pay It Forward

Maybe you’ve seen the movie Pay It Forward and even if you have you might want to watch it again. The essence and ideas are tremendous.

Now I do admit that the kid tries to do too much and I am not recommending that anyone provide shelter to a homeless man they don’t know.  That could be very scary for some.  I have done a lot of work with homeless people and most of them are not as scary as they look.  Remember these are people who live through the harsh conditions of the street.  You and I would lokk like that if we had to go through that.  But I digress!

The point here is that the kid in the movie does something and takes action and is not looking for anything in return.  Now again there is nothing wrong with getting something in return and you might want to read what many would construe as a controversial post – coming up next.

Doing Your Bit – Leveraging Others

So imagine if you were standing beside a lake and you had a handful of small pebbles.  One by one you throw them into the lake, each pebble causing a ripple that spreads out dissipating just as far as the eye can see.  You would be disturbing the water a bit but not much.  Now imagine 100 people standing with you doing the same thing.  Then imagine a hundred thousand people or one million people each throwing a small little pebble in the water.

I think the water on that lake would start to cause some waves to happen on the other side.  In fact the other side of that lake might be too far away for you all to see the impact you were creating.

That’s what I believe will happen if we all do a little bit in our corners of the world to impact humanity.  At first we might not even notice the affect it is having however, as more people get involved and do their little bit, that impact is bound to send waves of change throughout the planet.

Wishful Thinking?  Join me next as we continue this journey!

Welcome to this Little Blog where I am going to try to inspire you to do a few things that can change the world. Now I am not going to do this myself because that would be too huge. Instead I am going to ask others to help me, including you if you like, because that is the key point here.

We don't have to do everything ourselves. It is all about doing a few little things simply because each of us CAN do something little.