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CREATING VALUE
ARE YOU ADDING VALUE TO
THE PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE?
We all want to feel more confident.
We want to know that we are
providing value.
We have to find out how to add value
to the people in our lives.
When we ask the right questions, we
can add value to those around us.
When we add value to the world, we
naturally feel better, we feel confident
and we feel fulfilled.
Many of us have been brought up to
think that there is only so much to go
around and we must grab what we
can before other people get our share.
But there is another theory which
insists on the importance of
community, emphasising our
interconnectedness and
interdependence.
Actually, many of the most important
things we can offer others are not
limited in supply and, in fact, actually
grow by our giving it.
When you show love, compassion,
encouragement, support and wisdom
to others, your supply doesn’t shrink.
Adding value to others will also bring
you opportunity.
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If you become known as someone who
always helps, always tries to find a
solution, you’ll find that when other people
have new projects or exciting things in
which they’re getting involved, you will be
one of the first they would like to include.
Invitations will begin arriving completely
unsolicited.
It’s important to add value in an authentic
way, in a way that doesn’t have an ulterior
motive, in a way that is genuine and
helpful and unassuming.
Give your time by teaching and sharing
with others.
Knowledge in and of itself is useless unless
you actually use that knowledge or pass
the knowledge on to others.
It is our duty as human beings that if we
know something that can help, even just
one person, that we release that knowledge
into the universe.
Sharing your ideas and know-how may be
providing a bridge of unimagined
possibilities for one person or be the
missing link for a phenomenal
breakthrough for another.
One way we add value to society is
through volunteering to share our
knowledge and skills, our labour and our
heart.