Giving Challenge #1 - The Thanksgiving Promise
Two Steps Toward a Life of Better Giving
The first episode of You Are What You Give opened with something simple and profound: an 11-year-old boy, deeply aware of his circumstances, speaking an intention shaped by gratitude and compassion.
Rob Adams made a promise. It was the first step towards transforming gratitude into giving.
Years later, Rob made good on that promise. And the scope of his ability to support hundreds of families in need was far greater than anything he had envisioned.
Rob’s story reminds us that a giving promise has two essential phases:
1. Clear Intention
What matters to you? How can you be intentional? In what way will you give?
Thanksgiving is an opportunity to recognize and experience gratitude. As you express that gratitude, you may be drawn to share what you have with others. That’s the perfect stage for making a personal commitment.
Today’s Giving Challenge is to make a small, personal commitment to bring good to someone beyond yourself. This can be about giving to someone new, giving more, or giving better. Another step in your giving journey.
And keep in mind that this is not the biggest promise you’ll ever make. Just the next one.
2. Making Good on the Promise
Between now and next Thanksgiving, the second part of the Giving Challenge will be to do your best to honor what you committed to.
Of course, as with your promise, its fulfilment is personal. Your path, your pace, your process.
One year from today, you’ll be able to look back and see how your promise has grown, from a specific intention to the real world ripple effects of better giving.
Your Challenge for Today
Make one giving promise.
Write it down.
Save it in your notes or calendar.
Put it somewhere you’ll see next Thanksgiving.
Check in with yourself, and chart 365 days of giving growth.
Wishing you a meaningful Thanksgiving,
Avi