It's easter, at least in orthodox religion, and for the first time we have to stay at home, we can't go to church or participate in any religious manifestation, only online.
One good thing about this social isolation is that people are more united than before because this virus doesn't care about race, religion, or social status.
Happy Easter card
I participate in a webinar with Gavin today, and one of the questions was:
How responsible are you?
One of the participants share his list of responsibilities, and he realizes that he forgot to put himself at the top of the list.
I agree with that.
I believe that you have to be responsible for yourself first, for you to be able to help others.
One similarity I found when you're flying with an airplane, before taking off one of the things that flight attendants teach the passengers is that if the oxygen masks are released, always put it on you first, after that on your child and other passengers.
Why?
Because if you do it at the reverse, you can only help 2,3 persons before you pass out because of lack of oxygen.
But if you have your oxygen mask on, you are capable to help more than 2 or 3 people.
Treat yourself better, because how you will treat yourself is how others will treat you.
My question to you is:
How responsible are you, with yourself, with your life, with your business?
What are the bad habits that you want to eliminate from your life?
Why?
First, because your kids are looking up to you, you are their hero, they will copy you sooner or later, and what they learned they will do it in society.
If you are responsible for yourself, you will influence your family to do the same, and your family will influence society to do the same.
Everything starts with you.
My message to you today is:
Be grateful and give back.
Maybe you will think that we are on lockdown, it's a pandemic, how can we be grateful?
If you are on lockdown, be grateful for spending more time with your family, be grateful for your health, be grateful for your eyes to read this post, be grateful for the good things in your life, and don't mind the bad.
If you're not grateful for what you've got right now, you will never be grateful no matter what you will get in the future.
Personally, with the giving back part, I struggled. Why?
I thought that when I will have enough I will give back. The problem is that even when I earn more, I never had enough.
In some religions, you give back 10% of what you earn.
My wife always tries to convince me to give back, and I replay that if I'll do that and when I have to pay the rent next month, and I don't have all the money, I don't think they will give it back to me.
I learned that helping others, donating is a habit, and if you don't install and practice the habit(because you don't have enough), you will not do it when you will have enough.
If you think that 100$ is a lot donating from 1000$, what makes you think that when you'll have 1.000.000$ you will give back 100.000$.
That applies to everything money, knowledge, goodwill.
I like how Robert Kiyosaki writes it in one of his books,
God is my business partner.
From all the profit I make, I only have to give back to him 10%, and he let me keep the rest.
You know what happens when you don't pay your partners.
Study shows that helping others makes us happier, is in our nature, we will always do more for others, and if you have kids you know that is true, you will always do more for your kids than for yourself.