Living Our Lives Backwards

I love this quote by Margaret Young;

"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what want so that they will be happier.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you really want."

I have in the past and sometimes still make this mistake of living my life backwards. However, I find that when I do as prescribed by Margaret Young, things do happen as I desire.

One area which I think many of us have this attitude is in the area of charity. We lament about how there is so much poverty in the world...and then sometimes say to ourselves, "when I win the lottery or when I am rich, I will give a big amount of money to charity".

I think that if one of our desires is to see poverty eradicated from the world, what we need to do is to give a little along the way and not wait for the "big one". I have seen people who were not rich before and then when they become very rich, they still don't help charities.

A few dollars here, a few dollars there and the culmination of all these small efforts by many people will result in the change we wish to see.

I have a page on my website with links to some of the most credible charity sites in the world where you can start the habit of giving a little on a regular basis right until we actually become rich. I think that lending a helping hand allows us to feel "rich" along the way to becoming rich.

Please click here to check out this page of charity links.

Blessings,
Jeremy