Saturday, September 7, 2013

Why It Pays To Share

I know some people who hate to share. They actually hate it. They are satisfied to suck up all the knowledge and amenities and food and money that someone else provides for them but when it comes time to either put up or shut up they stay silent. They constantly refuse to put in their portion of the pot I imagine because they think someone else will get a slight portion more than they get. I have never really figured that one out. All I can say is “they just don’t get it.”

I know for myself that prior to any receiving there has got to be some giving. The more you give, the more you receive. I have seen this scenario played out in my life over and over again. Just when you give something that is a challenge for you to give something, bigger and better comes along to replace what you gave up.

I made a video about how I love to share. You see for me the joy comes in being able to share the moment. For instance when I took my family (my son, daughter and granddaughter) on a cruise, just the joy of exposing them to the environment of a cruise ship gave me a feeling of satisfaction knowing that they had not experienced this before. Maybe it would start a yearning within them the desire to travel as it is with me. Well anyway, I ended up basically sponsoring their trip for the most part. I managed pretty well. We like to gamble and play the slot machines. I had already told my daughter that we didn’t have too much extra to play in the casino and that most people do not win a large jackpot so our best bet was to avoid the casino and find other things to occupy our time and our money. She agreed, but the first two people at the door when the casino opened was she and I. Right! Stay away from the casino-it didn’t work.

We stayed for quite a while and then when I saw I wasn’t really too lucky I decided to go to the room and call it a night but my daughter stayed. At about 2:00 a.m. I received a call from my daughter saying “Mom, I hit the jackpot. Come down now, right now!” Well, I was still sleepy but got excited at the news and in the urgency of her request to come now. I just kept on my pajamas and went to the casino where she was sitting at a penny machine with the lights flashing and people standing around looking. I said “How much did you win?” She said “$5,000.” What, I couldn’t believe it. I’ve been on many cruises and no one that I ever went with had won anywhere near that amount of money. “Wow!” I said. “Don’t spend it all back now”, I told her. “Ok” she said. We went to the room. There she gave me ten $100 dollar bills right off the top. I was ecstatic. To think we were supposed to avoid the casino. But that is just one example of how through my sharing I got it all back with left overs. I always like to quote the bible, “Give, and it shall be given unto you.” That’s all I thought about.

So seeing as I like to share I found a program called Loyalte Pays. In this program there are all types of content to share. There are videos, pictures, books, etc. You share that information and get paid when people sign up to the program. It’s as simple as that. So if you believe in sharing and can use some content on your blog or wherever, you might want to look at this program.

Wishing for you the success that I wish for myself.

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