Giving

I have begun reading Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich. I am only on the first chapter but what has already stuck out to me are these 6 steps. Decide how much money you want, when you want it by, what you are wiling to give, devise a plan, start immediately and read the answers to these questions twice a day. I love the affirmation aspect. Reading my plan and feeling and imagining like it has already happened.  Now what has me stumped is what am I willing to give. When I first read it, I thought I read decide what I am willing to give up and I began to think that I had to sacrifice something to get what I want. When I read it again and realized it said what am I willing to give, I was still at a lost. I thought well I am willing to give time, focus and energy to make my dream a reality. Is that enough, I don't know but I figure it’s a good start.

I asked my boyfriend what he was willing to give for his business and his first response was money. He then added work and time but he definitely thinks that money is a part of the process. And who's to say he's  not right. We have all heard "takes money to make money” or my new favorite by Meek Mills "scared money don't make no money." The book has yet to say anything about what to give simply that you must be willing to give something.

A concept that at first  baffled me now makes a lot of sense. It  made me take a look at my own attitude toward the term "give" and how I so easily saw give up. I want to shift my relationship to the word give. Some definitions of the word give that spoke to me were to contribute, to be warm and open in relationship with others. These definitions are the energy that I want to give when I give my focus, energy and time to my mission of growing my coaching and workshop practice and work.  These will not just be things that I do to reach an end but I will know that I am contributing to the world and relating to others in a way that is warm and open.