How to BE OF SERVICE & Skyrocket Your Growth | Dave Ramsey EP 509

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:12What do you think happens to people that never give? That they just earn for themselves or they keep it in their business and they only put it back in their business, but they don't think about giving outside of the business? I think their growth is stunted. To me, again, it falls in the same category as integrity. What happens to someone who cuts corners? You can win. you can prosper to a degree but all the data tells us and and all the life experience tells us that the people with fanatical levels of integrity are the ones that do the biggest stuff. The crooks really don't get ahead at the end of the day.

0:51The people that are selfish they can get some stuff done but the people that are selfless they just have a tendency because people trust them Things move at the speed of trust, as they say. And all those things come into play. And you just don't become all you were designed to be. The other thing that happens with generosity is your creativity increases. Because you're releasing chemicals that you don't release when you're selfish. Your productivity increases. The quality of your relationships increase. I was speaking at a little Baptist church in Kentucky one time. Beautiful little church. The pastor had been there for 40 years, and I did a tithing lesson, hardcore Baptist tithing lesson, which I love.

1:36And the guy came up afterwards, and he goes, well, you left one thing out. Sure, pastor. I mean, you've been doing this longer than me. What did I leave out? He goes, you know, I've been doing this 40 years. I've never had a tithing couple in my church get a divorce. I went, why? Because the tithe is magical? Because some people think that in Christianity, you know, because I don't think that. He said, no. Well, because when you're unselfish with your money, you're unselfish with your wife, and you're unselfish with your husband. And you serve each other in the marriage if you're serving the community with your giving.

2:06It's the same muscle. And he goes, you're just easier to stay married to. When you make giving a standard part of the rhythm of your life, you build that generosity muscle, and it affects every relationship you're in. That's so true. Particularly the key relationship in a marriage. It changes the way you parent. Because if you don't give in one area, if you say, I'm going to hold back my money and I'm going to keep it here, you're probably not going to give generously to your spouse or to your kids or to your friends or community, right? Because it's a character quality. It's like the guy that says, well, you know, I hate the IRS.

2:42I hate taxes, so I don't really put everything on my tax return. Okay, so you're a liar. You're a cheater. Where are you going to cheat me? That's what I start thinking. I'm not impressed. I hate taxes, but I pay every stinking penny. Not because I believe in taxes and not because I'm scared of the IRS, because neither one of those things are true, but it's because it says something about me. I've got to look at me. And that's an integrity issue. Every penny, every cash sale of a book on the back table goes into the accounting system, and we pay freaking taxes on it. I got audited not long ago.

3:24I paid precisely zero in the audit. We were so stinking clean. And it's not because I'm scared of those dupers, because I'm really not. They're a pain in the butt, but I'm not scared of them. It's a matter of integrity is integrity is integrity is integrity. Generosity is generosity is generosity is generosity. These things, these are character qualities of the successful people that I've met.

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