The Journey of Giving – Conclusion of My 29 Gifts in 29 Days
This project was incredible, not just to realize what life is like when your focus every day is making someone else's day, but that you realize some of the best gifts you can give are actually for yourself. Sometimes you need to give yourself time, to use your talents for you, and put your treasures to use - for you. Every gift you give to others, you inherently get back as well - in gratitude, in faith, in love.
I started blogging each day for the gifts I was giving throughout my journey, but it became so overwhelming I decided to wait until the end to give an overview.
I am 3 days away from the end, but I don’t need to wait until the end to know I have learned tremendously through this giving experience especially through the holidays. This is the first time I’ve never really bought Christmas presents and instead gave and received much more valuable things through time, talent, and treasure.
Just a quick scope of the things that I gave over the past 29 days was anything from babysitting my niece & nephew to give my brother and his wife some time together, hosting family at my house for the first time for Apple Cup, buying tequila shots for co-workers (seriously, it’s much needed), simply asking a stranger how their day was and just listening to them, sharing one of my personal loves by sending a friend and her family to their first Seahawks game, taking a risk and buying a ticket to Argentina to be with my boyfriend instead of my family on my most holiest of holidays – Christmas weekend, buying a stranger lunch, helping friends move, attending my nephew’s first Christmas concert, called friends I hadn’t talked to in over a decade, helping others make connections by connecting them together, gave many compliments, but most of all – loved, loved, loved.
This project was incredible, not just to realize what life is like when your focus every day is on other people, but that you realize some of the best gifts you can give are actually for yourself. Sometimes you need to give yourself time, to use your talents for you, and put your treasures to use – for you. Every gift you give to others, you inherently get back as well – in gratitude, in faith, in love.
I whole-heartedly recommend this project to anyone that feels something is missing or has lost focus lately – I plan on doing it again next holiday season!
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all!
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