The Dumbest Magic Trick in the World

This isn't exactly about business, unless you're smart enough to know that business is absolutely about love.

If you give all your love away every day, something interesting happens.

Have you ever tucked $5 or $20 in a coat or bag so that you'll find it later and be pleased? (Like, the dumbest magic trick ever.)

I give away my love daily. To as many people as I can. In as many ways as makes sense (remember: what we need isn't what someone else needs. We have to give them THEIR love ,not our love).

I just figured this out.

If you do this enough. If you just give and give and give and give (cue Bob Berg), you have stuffed little $20 bills everywhere. And people (not even friends because I think of almost everyone as my friend) people will give you that love. Your love -- or theirs if they don't know the best way to give it -- comes back.

Suddenly, you go from "broke" to "love rich." And shit. If you've got that much love, you can find the air again. You stop drowning. And then you can be whatever other kind of rich you need to be.

ALWAYS, the hardest parts of your journey are the scratch notes for the next chapter of your ridiculously colorful story. Or life. Because those two words are the same.

And if you feel terrible yourself right now, give love. Give people THEIR love if you can. But give love. You'll pick it all back up again when it's time.

Chris Brogan created StoryLeader™ so that leaders can learn how to use business stories to do the heavy lifting.