{"id":144,"date":"2009-04-02T18:19:06","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T23:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=144"},"modified":"2009-10-05T18:20:35","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T23:20:35","slug":"being-generous-without-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/being-generous-without-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Generous Without Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"power-of-giving-5\"Yesterday I talked about some of my first ideas in a new series I\u2019m planning for the summer at The Gathering <\/a>called, \u201cGenerous Wins.\u201d<\/strong> I talked about living in the flow and letting the flow become your overflow, and out of the overflow you contribute the energy of being overjoyed.\u00a0 And that over-joy and overflow helps you overcome what\u2019s overtaking you.<\/p>\n

That being said, let me also say this: generosity is not about money. <\/em><\/strong> Generosity is so much more than that.\u00a0 Think of the ways in which you can be generous.<\/p>\n

You can be generous with your time<\/strong>.<\/em> Return a phone call.\u00a0 Write a \u201cthank-you\u201d note.\u00a0 Take some time to show someone that you care personally.\u00a0 That\u2019s being generous.<\/p>\n

You can be generous with your words<\/em><\/strong>: kind words, loving words, words that build other people up.\u00a0 Show the overflow of your own sense of well-being.<\/p>\n

Acts of kindness<\/em> demonstrate generosity<\/strong>.\u00a0 Out of the flow and overflow of your life, you give in kind to others what you\u2019ve been given: grace, peace, joy, a second chance, a new beginning, a leg up, a word of encouragement, help, support.\u00a0 All of this is what it means to be generous.<\/p>\n

How about generosity shown in your attitude;<\/em><\/strong> an abundance mentality and mind-set?\u00a0 This spills over into your attitude every single day in how you enter a room and interact with other people.<\/p>\n

One of the most important ways generosity wins is through sharing your connections<\/strong><\/em>; helping people get connected.\u00a0 One of the greatest compliments I received just the other day was a guy saying to me, \u201cYou\u2019re like a hub, putting people together.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s it.\u00a0 That\u2019s how generosity wins.\u00a0 The more people I know, the more generous I am connecting the people I know, and they get together and contribute and help each other prosper, and then the more prosperous I become.<\/p>\n

So here\u2019s what I want you to understand.\u00a0 Generosity wins<\/strong>.\u00a0 In these times of downsizing, and global transition, and in these times when the President can demand the resignation of the CEO of GM (isn\u2019t that weird?), generosity wins. It always does, always has, and always will.\u00a0 The question is, \u201cDo you have the capacity to live out of the overflow, to create the kind of generosity that creates abundance?\u201d\u00a0 And the answer is \u201cabsolutely.\u201d\u00a0 If you don\u2019t now, you can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I talked about some of my first ideas in a new series I\u2019m planning for the summer at The Gathering called, \u201cGenerous Wins.\u201d I talked about living in the flow and letting the flow become your overflow, and out of the overflow you contribute the energy of being overjoyed.\u00a0 And that over-joy and overflow … Continue reading “Being Generous Without Money”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}