Tips to Building Wealth and Goodwill

Posted: 12 Feb 2008 | Categories: Wealth Building

As a young adult you may feel you have nothing to give to help support the charities or causes that you’re passionate about. The truth is many non-profit organizations need more than just money. They need your ‘fresh thinking’ to enable them to help more people.

Although you may feel that you don’t have extra money to help others in need right now; you do have the opportunity to earn, save and grow your money. Use the cause that you’re passionate about as motivation to take control of your personal finances. And while you’re building up your bank account, donate time to support your cause. An hour a month is a great start.

“The need is great”, according to Mr. Charles Fisher, Chairman & Founder of the Hip-Hop Summit Youth Council. “There are many opportunities for our youths to make a difference in their school, home, and community in the United States and abroad. Today’s youth can make a difference on a global scale which was evident when we worked with the United Nations to break the 2006 Guinness World Record of 23.5 million to get 43.7 million people in 2007 to Stand-Up and Speak-Out Against Poverty.” ended Fisher.

To truly receive all you can out of life, you need to give back. What you give-time, money, or both-is an individual choice. But the role that giving back can make in your life cannot be denied. By donating time to a charity, you will learn more about yourself, meet people interested in the same cause, gain a broader view of the world and appreciate what you have more.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

If your family or friends are in financial trouble wouldn’t it be great to be able to give back and help them out? Don’t you agree that it feel great when you know you personally helped someone? If your car breaks down in the middle of the desert and you have no phone, water or food-how would you feel about the good Samaritan that stops to help you?

In order to help more people and make a greater impact on the causes that you are passionate about - you need money. The more financially sound you are the greater impact you can have, the more you can donate to charities your passionate about, the more you can give back to people in need and the more free time you will have to pursue the causes that you are important to you.

The more you give, the more you receive. From my experience, this is a fundamental truth. Giving back, whether of your time or money, has an energy about it that changes lives and creates happiness.

All this goodwill that you create will flow back to you. When you give back from the heart, it feels great and that should be reward enough. But you will receive a lot more when you donate your time or money, so get in the habit of giving back and improving others lives while you improve your own.

The first step to finding a cause to support is to find something that you really care about. There are numerous non-profits where your help is desperately needed. Find a charity to support where your skills are needed. Answer the following questions:

1) How can you use your interests, skills, and resources to give back and create a positive change in the world?

2) Is there something going on in the world that makes you upset, that you want to change or people that you want donate your time to help?

The Internet makes finding a non-profit simple.

Each of us can make a difference. I urge you to seize the day, instead of waiting until “I make more money” to begin a life of charitable giving. Start today and see the results tomorrow.

Start working with the causes that you are most passionate about now and visit http://www.FreeBy30.com to get your free video instruction. The creator of ‘Financially Free by 30′ and leading financial literacy advocate, Vince Shorb, gives you simple guidelines to make a positive difference in your life and others.

Article Author :Vince_Shorb