The key to making life really unique
and worthwhile is to share. Sharing has a certain unique magic of its own.
Here’s what I learned in sharing ideas.
If you share an idea with ten
different people, they get to hear it once, and you get to hear it ten times.
So here’s part of self-interest for yourself, getting you even better prepared
for the future. Share ideas. Share with your family, share with the people
around you, share with other employees, share with your colleagues.
Because, by sharing, two things
happen. Here’s what we call it. I don’t know how to explain it, but I do know
it happens. And I don’t know all about how it happens or why it happens, it
just happens.
When one person shares with another, two things
happen. The audience could be transformed, and so could the speaker. If you
share with someone else, they could be transformed. You may have dropped in at
the right time. This may be their moment.
They’ve got three numbers dialed
into the lock already, and if you say it well and say it right you’ll be the
fourth number that they can dial into the lock of their personal experience and
the door will come open and there’s opportunity they never saw before. The
person who hears could be transformed.
But here’s what else is exciting.
The person who speaks could be transformed. Guess what we’re all looking for…
transformation for our new life. The new life tomorrow, the new life this
month, the new life next year, the new life this year.
The caterpillar one day says, “I
think I was made for more than this crawling on the ground.” So the caterpillar
climbs the tree, attaches himself to a leaf and spins the cocoon. Who knows
what disciplined effort it takes to spin a cocoon. But something inside the
caterpillar says, “I was designed for something more than being just a
caterpillar.”
And then when the cocoon is ready
and it opens up, out comes a butterfly that flies away, maybe singing, “I
believe I can fly! I believe I can touch the sky! I used to be a caterpillar on
the ground, now I fly.”
I’m asking you to go through such a
metamorphosis. I’m asking you often to go through a period where you say, “New
skills, new things are waiting for me,” and part of this will come if you’ll
translate for other people what you feel in your heart and in your soul. As
awkward as your language might be at first, don’t hesitate to do it.
Here’s what sharing does… makes room
for more. Key question: If the glass is full of water, can it hold any more?
And the answer is yes. Yes, if you pour some out. So jot that down. If you want
more, you’ve got to pour out what you’ve got, and then you have the opportunity
to receive more.
Now, unlike the glass that remains
the same size when you pour some out, it’s not so in the consciousness of human
beings. Your capacity will increase the more you share. You’ll get bigger and
bigger and bigger.
Now, why the self-interest wish to
be bigger? Here’s why: to hold more of the next experience. Some people can’t
hold much happiness because they’re too small, their thinking is too small,
their activity is too small, they’re too small in their ability to share,
they’re just too small. Can’t hold much. They’re too small.
But the bigger you get, the more you will
receive. When happiness is poured out, you’ll get more. When joy is poured out
on the nation, you’ll get more. When bounty is poured out from the economy, you
will get more, if you share what you’ve got and become bigger and bigger and
bigger.
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