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The Kevin Miller Podcast

Serving Is Not A Zero-Sum Game

The Kevin Miller Podcast

Kevin Miller

Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Social Sciences, Education, How To, Society & Culture, Science, Medicine, Life Sciences, Spirituality, Nutrition, Self-improvement, Mental Health, Relationships

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

#966: Anyone listening to this show is interested in giving and serving people. This is where we find our greatest fulfillment of purpose. We serve our families, friends, and everyone we can through our work, and some go further and volunteer in different capacities. But how do we view serving? Is it a zero sum game? Is it like Shel Silverstein’s book, The Giving Tree, and every piece we give away we lose until we are nothing but a stump? In this episode we take aim at this. Not whether to give and serve or not, but the spirit in which we do it. Do we treat it like a privilege and joy? Or a burden. My opinion is…we are all on the spectrum between these two perspectives and higher and lower in some areas we serve. And when we get closer to burden, we are risking bitterness and burnout. Is it more valiant to press on and give out of the scraps we have left in our heart? Or sometimes, stop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:06.8

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0:23.5

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0:26.2

Even listening to this show is interested in giving and serving people.

0:30.3

I mean, this is where we find our greatest fulfillment and purpose.

0:34.4

We serve our families and friends and everyone we can through our work and some go further

0:39.2

and volunteer in different capacities.

0:41.9

But how do we view serving?

0:44.3

Is it a zero-sum game?

0:46.6

Is it like Shell Silverstein's book, The Giving Tree, and every piece we give away we lose

0:51.9

until we're nothing but a stump?

0:54.8

In this episode, we take aim at this concept.

0:58.0

Not whether to give and serve or not, but the spirit in which we do it.

1:01.7

Do we treat it like a privilege and a joy or a burden?

1:05.4

My opinion is, and what you'll hear in the show is, we're all in the spectrum between

1:08.9

those two perspectives and higher and lower in some areas we serve than others.

1:15.3

And when we get closer to burden though, to viewing it that way, we're risking bitterness

1:20.3

and burnout, which we see and a lot of us have experienced.

1:23.9

So is it more valiant to press on and give out of the scraps we have left in our heart

1:28.2

in ourselves?

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