Every week on You Are What You Give, we highlight one practical step to help bring purpose into practice.
Expand the circle of giving.
Tila Falic reminded us that most of us began giving because someone in our life modeled it. Someone introduced giving as a lifestyle. Someone opened a door.
This week, you can open that door for someone else.
Here are a few ways to do it:
1. Talk about what you care about.
Choose one project, cause, or community you genuinely value. Bring it into a conversation with a friend, a colleague, or a family member. Not to persuade. Simply to share.
2. Invite someone to join you.
If you’re volunteering, giving, or supporting a specific effort, extend an invitation. One person. One opportunity. One step.
3. Create a moment for someone else to give.
It might be as small as forwarding a link, offering a volunteer shift, or pointing someone toward a need they would want to meet.
4. Share the episode.
If Tila’s clarity, energy, and discipline resonated with you, passing the episode to someone else is itself an act of giving. It widens the circle by bringing another person into the conversation.
Give someone in your life the chance to give, not because they “should,” but because meaningful opportunities often appear only when someone names them.