{"id":11984,"date":"2019-12-02T21:26:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T03:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=11984"},"modified":"2019-12-02T21:38:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T03:38:35","slug":"the-law-of-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/the-law-of-giving\/","title":{"rendered":"The Law Of Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Law of Giving is very simple:\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want joy, give joy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If love is what you seek, offer love<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you crave material affluence, help others become prosperous.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                                                                           -Deepak\nChopra<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So my Cyber Monday turned into an early Giving Tuesday as I spent the first part of my day in a board meeting up in Salt Lake City for the Stella H. Oaks Foundation I serve on the board of which helps provide educational scholarships to single mothers, and from there I drove directly down to Provo where I spent the rest of my day down at Brigham Young University speaking to an auditorium of 350 students for the Entrepreneurship Lecture Series and then doing a Q&A session for students to ask any questions they had.\u00a0 I\u2019m just now getting home at 7:45pm, which means by the time I finish this blog I\u2019ll only have a few hours of a Cyber Monday left\u2026and while I may have missed out on some good online shopping deals today I know the way I chose to spend my time today felt far better than any discount could have felt – and that\u2019s saying something because I love a good discount!\u00a0 \u00a0But it\u2019s true – the joy that comes from helping others prosper is just about the best joy there is.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday, a day everyone is encouraged to give. Keep in mind that giving isn\u2019t just about giving money, its about giving your time and giving of your talents as well.\u00a0 It can be something as small as giving a smile or a hug or saying a prayer on someone\u2019s behalf. It can be donating money to a worthy cause (like the Stella H.<\/a> <\/a>Oaks Foundation<\/a>) or buying someone\u2019s meal for them at a restaurant. It can be paying for the car behind you on the toll road or at the drive through window for lunch.\u00a0 It can be sending a handwritten card or a kind text message saying you care.\u00a0 What matters tomorrow for Giving Tuesday is that you take time to give in whatever capacity you are able.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Law Of Giving really is that simple:\u00a0 If you want joy, give joy. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have a beautiful day!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~Amy Rees Anderson (author of the book \u201cWhat Awesome Looks Like: How To Excel in Business & Life<\/a>\u201d ) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Law of Giving is very simple:\u00a0 If you want joy, give joy If love is what you seek, offer love If you crave material affluence, help others become prosperous.\u201d                                                                            -Deepak Chopra So my Cyber Monday turned into an early Giving Tuesday as I spent the first part of my day in a board […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19774,22431,395,684,69,15625,1995,19257,1349,22432,19773,22427,22425,22426,15624,406,2442,22433,22430,22428,18028,507,22429],"class_list":["post-11984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-givingtuesday","tag-affluence","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-brigham-young-university","tag-byu","tag-cyber-monday","tag-deepak-chopra","tag-entrepreneurship-lecture-series","tag-give-back","tag-give-of-your-time-talent-and-treasure","tag-giving-tuesday","tag-if-you-crave-material-affluence-help-others-become-prosperous","tag-if-you-want-joy-give-joy","tag-if-you-want-love-offer-love","tag-online-shopping","tag-photos","tag-public-speaking","tag-rollins-center-for-entrepreneurship","tag-stella-oaks-foundation","tag-the-best-way-to-succeed-is-to-help-others-succeed","tag-the-law-of-giving","tag-wealth","tag-you-never-know-the-lives-your-impacting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11985,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984\/revisions\/11985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}