The power of unprompted giving

Want to have an immediate impact on a few people today? Anyone can give when they’re prompted or a need is staring them in the face. What about giving without being prompted or without a need being known?
What about doing this at work? Here’s a three step beginner’s guide:

• Think of 2-3 people in your sphere of influence, whether colleagues, vendors or customers.
• Take a moment to reflect on their unique interests, needs or impact on your life.
• Identify one thing you can do or say today to give to them, whether that means supporting their interests, meeting their needs or affirming their impact on your life.

Regular, unprompted giving might happen in a healthy home or church, but it’s too rarely seen in the workplace. While prompted giving is great, unprompted giving is even better because you are the sole catalyst. This makes the thought more meaningful and the impact more lasting.

Go have some fun and give today.

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Do Good and Be Good

The third law of Newton's Laws of Motion state that for every positive force there is an equal negative force, or words to that effect. It makes sense, really. If that didn't happen then the whole Universe would get out of kilter pretty quickly. So it is with life. So it is with good and bad.
If you think of yourself as a set of scales, when you do good for others, then you create an imbalance. Some goodness has left you. That creates the gap for good things to happen to you. This is the law of Karmic return. The really interesting thing about all this is that you can do good to person A and get good back from person Z. In the end, it all balances out. Now, don't expect an instant return. The Universe does not work like that and will not be hurried. But trust me. Do good things and good things will happen to you.
The reverse is also true. Do bad things and bad things will happen to you. Now of course, all this sort of stuff doesn't all get balanced out in the course of a month, a year, or even a lifetime. Some people do so much good that they sometimes leave the planet before that good has had a chance to come back to them. Maybe that 'goodness' gets paid back in another realm? Or maybe that left over goodness is used to balance the books of someone not so angelic. Who knows?
What I do know (for certain) is that if you do good things, then good things will follow. In many and unimagined majestic ways. Don't believe me? Try it and see. Go on. Do something 'good' every day for the next month and see what happens. Here's a starter list for you, but please feel free to add your own:

• Do a good deed for a neighbour, friend or stranger.
• Start a conversation with a homeless person. Buy them lunch.
• Recycle. Compost. Burn less carbon. Use less water.
• Donate to a worthy cause.
• Smile at a stranger.
• Start a conversation on a train or a bus.
• Give someone a hug.
• Offer unconditional friendship to someone who needs it.
• Do not kill things (including non malarial mosquitoes, cabbage, white butterfly caterpillars etc. etc.)
• Throw a dinner party. Invite friends and someone who needs some company.
• Volunteer
• Tell someone that you love them
• Bless someone
• Say thank you
• Cherish YOUR body
• Help someone in trouble

It's all good.

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