The More We Give

It’s a universal law that the more I help someone else, the more I end up helping myself. Thus the phrase, “In the joy of others, lies your own.”

I was fairly stuck on a business challenge for the last few weeks. I was spending countless hours reading up on ways to deal with it. I had even experimented with ways to get past it.

But nothing was working.

I decided I needed a different approach to things.

Enter the law of karma.

You reap what you sow.

I reached out to a friend who was feeling stuck on a completely different aspect of his life. He was spinning his wheels for a while on something.

I entered the conversation with a desire to catch up and then find any way to help him.

Just listening to him and asking him a few questions helped him get unstuck. I don’t think I did anything too substantial.

The very next day, I was rewarded with an introduction to an industry titan by someone else entirely. This person easily gave me the idea I needed to break through.

We don’t often see the threads of life and how they interact with one another.

We don’t see the seeds we plant in one place sprout elsewhere.

But it always does. And faith in this idea has been helping me give more unconditionally.