Make It Count

They may for­get what you said, but they will never for­get how you made them feel.

Time

Take time to do the lit­tle things.  Buy flow­ers, send a card, smile, tell a great joke, share some­thing you learned.  These things will be remem­bered over the long haul and will help you build great rela­tion­ships with peo­ple who could do the same to oth­ers, mak­ing this small world a bet­ter place to live.

Tal­ent

Share your skills.  For pay or for free, no mat­ter, just share.  The world works bet­ter when every­one shares part of the load of daily liv­ing.  Be “that guy” who doesn’t mind help­ing out and will sac­ri­fice a lit­tle extra effort for the good of the team.

Trea­sure

Yeah, your money.  Keep read­ing, I am not done yet.  There are a lot of things that can be done for lit­tle or no mon­e­tary input, but even­tu­ally, every­thing costs money.  So, give a lit­tle, every penny counts.  If you do a good job of pick­ing places that really need the money and whom are doing a good job in the world, you’ll find that they usu­ally turn out to be a 501c3, then you can get a lit­tle back your­self at tax sea­son.  Just don’t for­get why your giv­ing the money…(hint: you’re help­ing people)

All in all, it doesn’t really mat­ter what you give — time, tal­ent or trea­sure — just give a little.