How Do You Contribute?

That is the question that you should be asking yourself when you look at your journey through this life. How or more importantly what do you contribute to your relationships, your family, your community, at work and in the world in general?

This is not about getting yours, your life is about your contribution, the older you get the more you come to understand it. When you are contributing your life makes sense.

Your contribution can be in any way that enhances another's life and it is different for everyone, it's not what and how much, it's that you do make a contribution at all. The more you contribute is relative to the level of happiness you experience. The more you give of yourself the happier your world gets.

Your contribution though isn't about getting you happy, that is just the icing on the cake. I am talking about contribution that comes from the heart, your desire to do something because you can and you know that it is going to enhance someone else's life.

In your relationship you do something that you know will make the other person happy, it can be the smallest of things but it makes them feel cared for, loved, significant.

Everyone is looking to feel significant in some way or another, to know that they matter, whether it be between a husband and a wife, a business and their client, from one family member to another it's significance that is one of the main emotions that humanity is seeking.

Your acknowledgment of another doesn't have to be in a grand gesture, it can be as simple as making an effort to remember their name and call them by it. It can be going that extra mile for someone; just taking the time to really speak to them and hear them, not just talk at them. It's about genuinely enquiring after their wellbeing, instead of it being just something to say in passing where you don't even stand still long enough to hear their reply.

It's a small demonstration of some kind that conveys to them that they matter and that you care about them, their friendship, their love, their custom. It maybe just that it's because they are in your life and your world is a better place for them being in it, even if it's just in that moment. The important thing is that you consciously decide to do so whenever and wherever you can.

Your fellow human beings really do deserve nothing less from you and you in turn will be amazed at the results. Just knowing that you did what you could in that moment for someone else can make you feel on top of the world.