5 Minute Friday Episode number 426 Focus on Giving

It is the final message of the year, the last 5 Minute Friday of 2016 and I want to say

thank you and I want to talk about the importance of giving and why giving and being in service

is the foundation to living a great life. I saw a video recently of a man who literally took

off his shirt on a New York City subway to give it to a shivering homeless man who was suffering.

Now he walks over and gives the man a shirt. He actually puts it on him because the man is

shivering so much and it looks like he's emotionally distraught. He gives him a shirt and then he goes

back and grabs something and brings it back to him and it's a beanie cap and puts it on his head

form so he clothes the man. There was no one else on the subway. There was like one person far in

the back and there was someone recording this from the distance. I don't even think this person

saw it but it made such an impact on me and it has hundreds of thousands or millions of views

and it's made an impact on other people's lives by one simple act of giving. Now here's the thing

when we give we contribute to the kind of world that we want to live in and some of us feel like

we have nothing to give. We feel like we're broke, we're struggling, we're stuck, we're so focused

and consumed in our own self-suffering or self-centric thinking that we're unable to give to others

and the first thing is first you got to take care of yourself. You got to give to yourself and

make sure you're full. Fill up your tank, work on the things you need to to be full and then you

can give to others. If you're already empty and you're giving to people when you're broke and

you have no money and you take money out, you go in debt to give people money then that's probably

not wise. Make sure you're taking care of your needs so that you can give fully and give more.

That's why I focus on being the best entrepreneur I can, the smartest business person I can.

So that I can serve my audience in business and through the funds serve the world and make a

...