LAW 15 — CHAPTER 15: The Law of Contribution
Growing Yourself Enables You To Grow Others
LEARN IT
“Other Need To Grow Too”
I. Adding Value To Others
A. You cannot give what you do not have
B. Daily Ask Your Self: What Good Shall I do Today
C. What Good Have I Done Today?
II. Be A River, Not A Reservoir
These questions are excellent for identifying someone who can encourage us to be our best:
A. Who mentors you and offers you a baseline of wisdom?
B. Who mentors you to aspire to be a better person?
C. Who challenges you to think?
D. Who cheers on your dreams?
E. Who cares enough to rebuke you?
F. Who is merciful when you have failed?
G. Who shares the load in pressurized moments without being asked?
H. Who brings fun and laughter into your life?
I. Who gives you perspective when you become dispirited?
J. Who inspires you to seek faithfully after God?
K. Who loves you unconditionally?
Now, turn these questions around on yourself and reflect how YOU can be this person to someone else.
LIVE IT
“Give To Grow, Grow To Give”
III. Making The Right Contribution Choices
A. Be grateful
1. Live in an abundance attitude
B. Put people first
1. Is there anything more important than people?
2. If you are a leader, either people will be first, or you won’t be the leader very long.
C. Don’t let stuff own you
1. Discuss this wisdom from John, “There are only two reasons to have money: To have options and to serve others.”
2. If your life’s work is to have a life’s work, then you are working for the wrong thing.
D. Don’t let people own you
1. Owe no man anything and let not others owe you.
2. Graciously accept gifts, but never as a means to control you.
E. Define Success as sowing, not reaping
1. You may never see the harvest of your labors. Think of those who have plowed the ground for you and never knew how much they influenced you.
2. Commit now to not leave this world without having impacted others for good.
F. Keep growing to keep giving
1. People who stop growing will stop giving.
2. People who stop growing will lose their passion
3. The greatest gift you can give someone is your own personal development
Facilitation Questions Options
OVERCOME GROWING PAINS
(Specific Steps to Amazing Growth)
• What is your underlying desire in life?
Self-fulfillment or self- development?
• Are your best efforts focused on making you feel good, or making someone else successful?
• Consider how “others may own you” through unhealthy relationships, unfair expectations, or undesired attention. Make the needed adjustments for these relationships.
• Are you a “Go-Getter” or a “Go-Giver”?
LEAD IT
“When you live this law, you will show others the way and they empower them to learn it and live it too.”
VI. Applying the Law of Contribution to your Life
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