Wow! 20,000 good people who were eager to be charitable grabbed $50 charity gift cards and experienced what it’s like to receive this uniquely meaningful gift. (1/7)
By doing so, they discovered how great it would be to give this gift to others which will lead to many more millions of dollars going to charity and many more thousands of people experiencing this type of gifting and receiving. (2/7)
Because this was so hot you might have been closed out. Don’t worry. I will do this again before the holiday with several of my charitable friends who have generously agreed to contribute to another round of cards. (3/7)
But before we do this again I’d like to ask you to reflect on this type of gift by taking a quick look at tisbest.org. Maybe that will inspire you to give this type of gift yourself or to request this type of gift from your own friends and family. (4/7)
Or maybe you will join me & my friends in contributing to the next round of cards (if you’re interested in doing so, email support@principles.com.) (5/7)
I don’t know exactly how you experience this kind of charitable gifting: I just hope that you do and that you then pass the word about how great it is. If you and others do that...(6/7)
...my hope is that soon this type of gift will replace some of the wasteful material gifts given each year, so that those who can really use the money will get it and we will all feel much more of the holiday spirit in our gifting. Together we can #redefinegifting. @TisBest (7/7)
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For example, my dad and most of his peers who went through the Great Depression and World War II never imagined the post-war economic boom because it was more different from than similar to what they had experienced. (1/4)
I understand why, given those experiences, they wouldn’t think of borrowing and putting their hard-earned savings into the stock market, so it’s understandable that they missed out on profiting from the boom. (2/4)
Similarly, I understand why, decades later, those who only experienced debt-financed booms and never experienced depression and war would borrow a lot in order to speculate and would consider depression and war implausible. (3/4)
I want to give you and others a $50 donation to your favorite charities.
Here’s why. (1/3)
For 10+ years, I’ve been giving friends, family, and colleagues a unique type of holiday gift: donations to their favorite charities. I love it and the recipients love it because it gets money to those who need it most, eliminates wasteful giving, & spreads holiday spirit. (2/3)
There are no strings attached to this giveaway, so grab your $50 gift to give to your favorite charities and consider this uniquely meaningful gift for those on your own holiday shopping list.
Being considerate means allowing other people to mostly do what they want, so long as it is consistent with our principles, policies, and the law. It also means being willing to put others ahead of your own desires. (1/5)
If the people on both sides of an argument approach their disagreements in this way, we will have many fewer disputes about who is offending whom.
Still, judgments will have to be made and lines will have to be drawn and set down in policies. (2/5)
This is the overarching guideline: It is more inconsiderate to prevent people from exercising their rights because you are offended by them than it is for them to do whatever it is that offends you. (3/5)
With the holidays coming, I want to pass along a unique type of gift that has been great for me and those I’ve given gifts to for the last 10 years. It’s the gift of a donation to their favorite charity. (1/8)
I love it (and others love it) because it gets money to those who need it most, eliminates wasteful giving, makes holiday shopping super easy, and spreads true holiday spirit. (2/8)
I used to send blank checks for my gift recipients to fill in with their favorite charities, but then I found a much easier way through Charity Gift Cards that can be redeemed at virtually any charity in existence (specifically, more than 1.5 million registered in the US). (3/8)
Yesterday’s inflation report showed inflation raging so you are now seeing inflation erode your wealth. That is no surprise. (1/4)
Some people make the mistake of thinking that they are getting richer because they are seeing their assets go up in price without seeing how their buying power is being eroded. (2/4)
Today I am sharing a part of the Determinants chapter of my new book, Principles for Dealing with The Changing World Order, to remind you of key principles that are relevant now. (3/4)
Because humans are capable of conscious, memory-based learning, we can evolve further and faster than any other species, changing not just across generations but within our own lifetimes. (1/9)
This constant drive toward learning and improvement makes getting better innately enjoyable and getting better fast exhilarating. Though most people think that they are striving to get the things (toys, bigger houses, money, status, etc.) that will make them happy... (2/9)
...for most people those things don’t supply anywhere near the long-term satisfaction that getting better at something does. Once we get the things we are striving for, we rarely remain satisfied with them. The things are just the bait. (3/9)