Lifting Others Up A Dollar At A Time

All of your funds
are being used
to build your business.
You don’t have much
to give back,
to lift others up.

Hey, I get that.
I’ve been in the same place.

But while I was
in that same place,
I DID have an extra dollar or two.
I didn’t have much more
than that
but I did have that amount.

So I gave the waitress serving
me and my prospect lunch
an extra dollar.
I gave the housekeeper
cleaning the hotel room
I stayed in
during that super important
customer-finding conference
an extra dollar.

That dollar made a difference
to them.

Stephanie Land,
author of
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay,
and a Mother’s Will to Survive,
shares

“I would say the tiniest little bit
goes a long way.

Like that woman
in the book
who handed me $10.
That bought us dinner that night,
and it was a huge treat
to be able to go out for dinner
—even though it was to McDonald’s.

Just those little, tiny perks.

Your life is this crushing hopelessness
because you feel like
you’re not going to make it
through the day.
And you don’t even want to think
about the future
because that means that
you’re going to be doing this
for that much longer.

Even that little candle
that a client left me [was huge].”

And the dollar made a difference
to me.
I felt generous.
I felt good.
And those feelings helped me
land opportunities.

A dollar CAN make
a difference…
to you AND to others.