Giving: The Most Selfish Thing You Can Do

The best way to get anything is to give it. 

The truly altruistic are those who give of themselves with no thought for personal gain by doing so. Yet, these are the same people who get more than anyone else. ​

So, if you have a problem with contributing to others, whether it's time, talent or treasure, then perhaps it's because you don't fully realize the instant return on the investment that such giving will result in. ​

What do you need, right now? Do you need more money? Do you need education or training in something? Do you need shelter or food? Do you need more sales or business success? Do you need more love or stronger relationships?

Then find someone whose need is even greater than yours, but for something that you have in greater amount than that person or group. If you just ponder for a minute, you will realize that there's someone with a greater need, just as surely as you can identify someone with a lesser need. ​

By 'greater need' I don't mean, your arbitrary desire is greater. I mean the actual need, based on detailed and definable deficiencies. 

Once you've identified that someone with a greater need than you, then give them the thing that you need. 

If you can teach someone something you know well, which they need to know, then you are giving. 

If you can give your excess food to someone who is hungry, but which will go to waste, then you are giving. 

If you can give business tips to a smaller business than yours, who is having the same problems that you once faced but which you conquered, then you are giving. 

If you need love or friendship, then give both, to anyone and everyone in your day. It costs you nothing

If you have vacant property that someone could use, then give it to them. You can find a way that protects your interests and yet still give others something they need. ​

Here's the 'trick' that takes a long time for people to understand. When you give, you get. The getting will be immediate in terms of fulfillment, but it will also be in kind, for those among you who aren't enticed by just that Mother Teresa Dalai Lama type of reward of just 'feeling good about yourself'. 

You will also get that money, property, love, friendship, better sales and improved quality of life. Yes, all the mundane stuff, you will receive. 

How will you receive these things? 

Every time you give someone to anyone or anything, you create a debt from your Universe to you. It's really the best investment you could ever make.  

If you work harder than what you get paid for, then you are owed more money from your Universe, and this debt has to be paid to you. It is an inevitability. 

Your Universe always pays its debts. Every single one. 

As with money, so for everything else that you need, desire or give. You can create a huge debtor in your Universe by just giving, giving and more giving. 

Conversely, you will create a huge creditor in your Universe by getting more than you've given. All debts are eventually settled, sooner or later. It's a law of nature. The thing is, you won't know from where this debt come, or how it will be settled, be it to you or from you. ​

Once this Universal Model is grasped, you'll be on a mission to give to as many people, groups and causes as you can, because then you'll be owed so many gifts from your Universe, and just like birthday presents, they'll be in wrapping paper. They'll typically be disguised and you won't see them coming. 

If all you've been doing is take, take and more taking, then your debt TO your Universe has been growing. The great bailiff will eventually arrive, unannounced, and you'll have to pay your debts big time. It'll be very annoying. ​

Therefore, spend your life GIVING as much as you possibly can. You can do it if you really want to. Just consider all the tiny things you can give. You can even give by writing a blog, or a book! If you donate money, it's better give it anonymously, as otherwise it's not really giving is it? Whenever you give, give it with a smile, knowing that you're helping others grow, other cells in the body of your Universe, and all you're doing is helping yourself!

Giving to other things in your Universe is merely feeding other parts of your own 'body', which is understood when you can shake off the illusion of separateness. 

As Zig Ziglar said, "You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what THEY want". 
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​Find out more about the Universal Model in the forthcoming book, UPWavers.