If you have the financial freedom and then what? Some might say that if they have the financial freedom they would start sharing it with others giving it to the poor. Well human are a product of habits and conditioning. If we never starts giving when we are poor most likely we would not change when we have abundance either. Some might say well if I have more of course I will give it to others. Well consider it this way when you have 100.000 IDR giving 10.000 IDR to stranger would not be that difficult, but what if you have say 100.000.000 IDR giving 10 mil IDR seems to be a lot, huh?
So why do we need to start sharing from early days? What are the benefits of doing so?
1. Net present value, a dollar given today to the poor is much worth than a dollar tomorrow, by giving a dollar as soon as possible in regular base we help more people and hopefully those people who has been helped can help other people. Sort of paying forward, we are using the power of multilevel marketing!
2. Habits/Conditioning, by having habits from early days it doesn’t seem to big later on when we have so much money on our hands.
3. Knowing what is enough, if we are to busy collecting all the material there is in the world we would be drown and cluttered what is more important for us, imagine this if you are drown in a 5 feet of water and deep ocean would it be the same devastating result? Yup, it does we can’t breath and we would be to busy collecting money and go to the last dime on everything.
4. Giving a good feelings, this is what we called wealth study by Jim Rohn, if we give some to the people in need we feel good. And when we feel good we can generate more earning. We have the abundance attitude according to Joel Osteen.
5. Example for others, like it or not we are a role model to the one we love and if we teach them from early day to share, most probably they will take this as their second nature.
6. We are the master, we finally said to money that money is used to help us and not make us the slave of it.
7. It separates us from the attachment to material, if we hear song from Monty Python , there is a line that says “you come with nothing you go with nothing!”
So yeah Ash Wednesday will start next week, Easter will be here.
So why not start giving in any ways we can, it doesn’t have to be grant just make the habits first.
