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My sixth gift for you – The Gift Of A Favour.

It can be as menial as giving up your seat to an elderly or pregnant lady. It can be an obvious large gesture like donating all the $1,000,000 proceeds of your lottery winnings to charity.

Have you ever done a favour for someone? I’m sure you had. Did you expect a return of the favour to you? If you have then that’s a wrong reason for doing it. Helping someone means unconditionally. You do not expect anything in return nor do you need to let that someone knew you had lent him/her a hand. Only when you do a favour with absolutely no strings attached would you experience true joy in the giving itself.

When you expect something, you are setting yourself up for possible resentment and disappointment if you don’t get any. This defeats the idea of doing a favour for someone, isn’t it? In fact, instead of beating your stress by doing someone a favour, you are increasing your threshold of stress by carrying the burden of expectation.

If you have experienced the sheer bliss in seeing someone’s life improved because of your kind gesture and act, then you will know what it means to give someone the gift of a favour. Spread the word around and share your happiness. In so doing, you are encouraging more people to do others a favour. Let the helpful virus spread to perform more magic and miracles.

Catherine Ryan Hyde wrote about this similar concept in her book “Pay It Forward” which spun off a foundation. The Pay-It-Forward movement was so successful because of the amazing power of its compounding effect and the indefinite people who will benefit from those kind acts that it sparked off the same campaigns in other parts of the world, including Singapore. See the power of just doing a favour to someone a day?

Someone who receives a favour is not obligated to the giver. That’s the beauty of this gift. Because there are no expectations, there are no obligations. It does not become a debt on the part of the receiver. It’s all about the graciousness of one to give, and another’s grace to accept.

Yet when you do receive something back in kind, you will double the joy because it is not expected, hence the act of repaying is not being taken for granted. Rather, it is with much appreciation and thankfulness the giver accepts the reward.

So every day, go out of your way to do something kind. Let another person in this world receive some hope, love and joy.

My Sixth Gift For You – The Gift Of A Favour. 

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