When was the last time you did something with no thought of recompense? I don’t mean a hobby, something that you just do for fun. I mean doing something in the hopes that it helps someone else, that it makes the world a little bit better off because what you did exists. It could be a hobby as well, but the purpose is different.

I’ve been doing that with my blog – there is no financial gain for me, no increase in status. I don’t care that 100,000 people haven’t read it yet. I simply have things on my mind that I wish to say in the hopes that someone will read it and be better off for it.

If you have a gift, an idea, a message that will benefit humanity, then share it selflessly without any thought of what might be in it for you. Perhaps the money or the notoriety or the personal gains will come later, but again, don’t do it for those reasons.

Give selflessly. Take your eye off the prize.