Comments on: There are three types of people – who are you?

By: Emenike Emmanuel

Emenike Emmanuel — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 03:28:51 +0000

Countless times I have offered people help and it came back to backfired me, but I don’t care. I will keep being good. But I have also been privileged to help people help and it came back to favour me.

By: J. R. Clark

J. R. Clark — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 07:16:11 +0000

But there are some people that they are fun of giving and take note they are expecting in return. So I prefer if you are a giver, this comes from your heart and do not ask something in return… Base on my experience I have a family she loves to give but in times that she ask favor from me then sad to say I cant do that favor, she made talks behind me and it really hurts when suddenly I knew from a friend all the lies she told to other people. Then I realize because of the things that she gave, she is expecting in return that I will do the same thing… Giving is not a will its a feeling or emotion that you love and like to give…

You have a nice article, I just express what I feel the experience of being a giver and a taker.

Thanks for sharing
Josh

By: Carl

Carl — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 12:22:08 +0000

Thank you so much Derek. This is truly insightful stuff.

By: Terry Chestnutt

Terry Chestnutt — Sat, 21 Dec 2013 03:59:22 +0000

I would say if you know you are a giver then don’t worry about it-about all that self doubt. You will do just fine. You know you are true, basically, after all. Someone else don’t think so, so what?

By: Whitney

Whitney — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 06:21:23 +0000

In my personal life it is about giving. And not expecting anything in return.

In my business life it is about mutually beneficial exchanges.
Every interaction has to benefit everyone involved. If something doesn’t benefit someone, they won’t participate.

By: Max Turner

Max Turner — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 03:55:39 +0000

As always you are amazing! Thanks for your post Derek. Not only did I love what you had to say but I loved your Blog that Converts course as well – Man talk about mind bending!

By: MJ Bush

MJ Bush — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 00:27:36 +0000

You might be able to leverage the “even a penny helps” tradeoff.

I think I would try this:

1) Ask for donations from the email list.
2) Use the phrase in a social media post or two.
3) Use “This many people have donated, but we still have $$ to go” either in a post or email, possibly both.

If it were a charity, I’d drop the “we still have $$ to go.”

By: Kris

Kris — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 17:47:32 +0000

Hi. Really interesting artice. Never thought about givers/takers before, but your artice made me think who I am and I think I am: giver

I think I am quite successfull. Surely, I would like to be more successfull than I am right now but I can’t complain 🙂

I quite enjoy giving rather than taking but sometimes I take as well.

Once again- very interesting article 🙂

By: Sj

Sj — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 04:18:28 +0000

Katie, you are not alone. This has happened with me at least ‘a million’ times ! List Includes some fortune 500 companies as well.

A million is little sarcastic. I am not that bad candidate. I did not give those many interviews ! I was a brand consultant. The problem is when you work as a brand consultant, you got to pitch something cool to your client. If you don’ find it cool, they wont buy. Same goes for interviews etc. The best ploy make your idea so unique that only you can execute it.

Now, I don’t utter words like hello, thank you etc without taking money 🙂 Top of it I do an agreement even before meeting my client.

~Sj

By: AJ

AJ — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 08:27:16 +0000

(1) One time my girlfriend’s parents needed a ride to the airport. Since I had the time, I was more than happy to give them a ride. Then a few months later, the timing belt went out on my vehicle. While it was in the shop, my girlfriend’s parents helped me get to and from work.

(2) After my grandfather passed away a few years ago, I was offered an opportunity to live with my handicapped uncle (who lived with my grandfather – his father – before passing away). I was under the impression that I would be responsible for running his errands, helping to keep the house clean, and other tasks he could not do due to him having to use crutches. However as time went on, he actually developed a sort of codependency on me. He would expect me to spend my days off work at home “babysitting” him and listening to his long winded pointless discussions. Since things got to a point where he was expecting way too much out of me (and I was feeling more like a prisoner), I had to move out.