How often do you feel ignored? Lonely? Insignificant? Taken advantage of?

What if I told you that moping and complaining about these feelings would only bring more of the same? What if I said, if you are telling the same story of woe to your friends and family over and over, you are attached to the story? What if I just called you out, right where you are and said, stop complaining!



I bet one of two things would happen. One. Your ego would take hold and get defensive, trying to prove to me the validation of your story and how wrongly you have been treated. Or Two. You might be ready to hear me, and thereby be ready to hear yourself. The real you, not your ego. Maybe, just maybe, you might be willing to give up your story.

But what do you do with the energy that has been tied up in your attachment to your story? You give it away. Not to say you hand off your negative energy to someone else; that will get you nowhere. Instead, whatever it is you feel the world is withholding, give that to someone else.

Feeling ignored? Call a friend or a relative you have not talked to since Christmas, just because. Feeling insignificant? The next woman or man you see at the grocery store struggling to corral his/her toddler, stop her to tell her you think they are doing a fantastic job (even if you don't think they are.) Feeling worthless? Give the grumpy cashier a warm smile and with the most wonderful day onto them. Feeling cheated? Put together a box full of school supplies and leave it anonymously at a school in a lower-income district around where you live.



The truth is, whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.


Today I Vow to give something that I think the world is withholding from me.