229: Caution! Don't Give to a Fault
The Chris Harder Show
Chris Harder
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
In This Episode You Will Learn About:
- A recent interaction with a friend that sparked this topic
- Why to give small when starting
- The importance of playing the long game
- Recommendations for giving
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Show Notes:
For today's episode, I'm weighing in on giving to a fault. This may sound weird coming from me, but yes, you can give to a fault– this is me preparing you to be a better, stronger giver in the future. Listen in as I share why it's important not to give too much in the beginning stages of your business, that way you can give graciously as your business grows.
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| 0:00.0 | Don't give from the seeds, give from the crops. If you have a handful of seeds and you give half of your handful of seeds away, |
| 0:05.0 | your crop is going to be much smaller than if you plant all of those, grow the hell out of that crop, |
| 0:10.0 | and then use that new, huge, robust crop to give from. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome everybody, this is for the love of money |
| 0:22.0 | where we are making you unapologetic about your pursuit of success by sharing the tools, tips, and stories of those who have already made it. |
| 0:31.0 | My name is Chris Harder and each week I will bring you incredible |
| 0:35.1 | guests in order to prove that when good people make good money they do great |
| 0:39.9 | things. to call my two cents and today I'm going to weigh in my two cents on giving to a fault. |
| 0:55.8 | Yes, you can actually give to a fault. Now this may sound weird coming from me, you know, |
| 1:00.3 | somebody who is a huge proponent of giving and and who believes that giving is a secret to everything that you want in life and has been able to prove it and you know the entire episode is when good people make good money they do great things except this is more of a cautionary tale. This is me preparing you to be a better, stronger |
| 1:16.8 | giver in the future by making sure that you are not giving to a fault right now. |
| 1:22.2 | So here's what I mean and really here's where this came from. I had a friend |
| 1:26.3 | call me for a little bit of counsel on a big settlement that he's about to get. Somebody did wrong by him. |
| 1:31.5 | He's been negotiating a settlement and he's about to get this |
| 1:34.4 | small windfall from this settlement and he when I asked him what's going to do with the |
| 1:39.5 | money he said well he's what I'm going to do you know I'm going to take half of it |
| 1:41.8 | and pay back the lawyer of it and pay back the |
| 1:43.9 | money that was missing from my account and do this and do that. |
| 1:46.5 | And then I'm going to take the other half and I'm going to give it to a cause that I |
| 1:49.5 | really care about in order to make this whole situation feel good. |
| 1:52.7 | Now on the surface, I bet you'd high-fived this guy |
| 1:55.1 | and you'd be like, yeah, way to go, you're giving half your money away. |
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