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What can you do to help someone else out right now?
What skills and talents do you have that you could use to help someone that needs it?
Last weekend I helped train a church security team (that’s my other side hustle at ModernSelfProtection.com) with firearms training.
They needed the training but didn’t have the funds to pay me. With COVID going around I haven’t had much to do, so I went anyways and gave a half-day course for free. It cost me an hour drive each way, ammo that I expended, and straight up time in the Texas heat. But I was able to use my skills and talent to do something about their problem.
These times are trying… just like most times in history. It always seems worse when you are in the middle. I think we are climbing out of COVID but the world is going to need help getting back on track.
You have a special talent that you can do exceptionally well. Sometimes you get paid for it, and sometimes you do not.
Right now, with so many people trying to get back to work and make a living again, almost all of us could use a hand up with something.
I know you may not be on top of the world, but sometimes you just help someone up so someone else can turn around and help you. Or you push someone up, and then someone pushes you up the ladder of success, and then you can turn around and give someone else a hand up.
Right now, I encourage you to be generous with anything you have in abundance.
I have time in abundance right now because I was laid off in March. So I could go help a church that needed it with a day of my time.
No matter how bad things feel right now for you, you have something in abundance. What is it? And how can you help another person with it?
Your talents can be used in abundance as the gift they are to help other people.
I’m a true believer in what goes around comes around. You help someone when they are in need, they will turn around and help someone else. Eventually, it will come back to you full.
What can you do to help a person around you that you know is struggling right now?
Even a text message or call to check up on them could mean more then you could ever know.
Do something, today, to help someone. It’s worth it!
Ben Branam
P.S. If you want to know one of the biggest influences in my life that made me better, it was the 75 Hard Challenge. Find out about it here.