“I think the world would benefit from more love,
joy,
peace,
patience,
kindness,
goodness,
faithfulness,
gentleness,
and self-control.” Lance Bourgeois
…with a phone call. It’s nice – and comforting – to be heard isn’t it?
…with a marriage. What/who else would you want to invest and spend your days with?
…with any exchange of currency (financial, social, relational, etc). Win-win is a no-no today for many and for some, taboo. Bob Goff rattled my cage with this thought – “God doesn’t pass us notes, He passes us people.” Let us not forget that it’s in our daily exchanges where most people are passed to us.
Alas, to be a friend and to let those friends that you have know you consider them into this sacred grouping is one of the finest human compliments.
To clarify, this isn’t a scratch-my-back-I’ll-scratch-yours friendship pairing we’re arguing for. What charms and delights here is the I’ve-got-your-back type of friendship.
I hope you will share this with someone that has paired well with your days.
…at some point.
Maybe you could pay someone with some help?
Or maybe they could pay you with some insight?
What about encouragement? This is one of the finest and rarest currencies available today…impossible for a check to bounce here.
And then there’s trust, friendship, hope, grace, and love.
Strapped for cash?
Check your wallet for some humanity.
It’s in there.
Even though few are teaching us it’s in there…it’s in there.
You just need to remember to use it.
You may have the right product or the right idea and you may even have a scenario for what you perceive to be as the right place, but if it isn’t the right time for the person on the other side of the exchange, chances are there will not be an exchange.
And that’s ok.
So the proper focus and goals for our days should not be to maneuver scripts and dialogues to get people from a place of not being to buy to being ready to buy, but simply to love, serve, and clothe our relationships in The Golden Rule.
You can’t create the right time for people buy something or buy into you, but you can love and serve in the meantime until the time is right for them.
If you’ve done so, rest assured, the knock at the door will come soon.
A purchase is the byproduct of trust and trust is the byproduct of love and service.
Here’s the deal…there isn’t an hour, moment, or day where love and service aren’t welcomed. For such things, it’s always the right place and the right time.
Ashton.Gustafson 