This past Tuesday was Pay What You Can Day over at beautiful Danielle LaPorte‘s site.  She was offering (get this) that you could pay what you can for The Spark Kit, an e-book of goodness to guide your business to the stars and beyond.  It’s a tool kit of love, videos, worksheets, and kisses.  And it’s currently rocking my world.  So why did she offer this?  Why did she give the entire world access to her bundle of awesome for so little?  And completely trust that people will literally pay what the can?  Because they do.  And she does.  And Danielle knows that givers get more.  

And Danielle is not alone.  My buddy Ryan introduced me to The Go Giver, a book about how you get what you give…. so give, give, give!  Givers get more from the people around them but there is a trick (always, duh).  You have to give without expectation and you get back 200%.  Danielle got to Amazon.com’s Top 100.  Never expected that, didya Danielle?  

I experienced it first hand yesterday at a networking lunch.  I was chatting it up with everyone and met two awesome guys: Mr. Money Saver Startup Dude and Mr. Financial Planner.  The two had known each other for a YEAR thru this group and had never seen how their businesses could influence each other.  Um, isn’t this a networking group?  So I told Mr. Money Saver that probably Mr. Financial Planner has a buncha clients who are trying to save moola (for said financial planning) and they ought to connect.  They did and traded straight up referrals.  Shazam.  Did I get anything out of that?  Not right now.  Maybe not ever.  Or maybe I will one day.  Either way I’m happy – connecting others and giving them business gives me so much more than I can ever imagine.  Givers, you see, get more.

Now, just for a little while, set your Type-A aside and take the focus off of being a go-getter so you can practice being a go-giver.  Feel what Danielle feels, give like Ryan gives, and see opportunities like I see them.  And who knows, go-giving might just be what makes you rock in 2012.  Got it?  Now go.