The Idea: We all have something that we do well. Whether it's singing, arts, design, photography, bookkeeping - everyone has something that they're good at. Many times, we're used to using our talent for financial gain or to make our living. How about using your talent to improve your immediate surroundings?
1. Send an email to your friends and family informing them of your talent.
2. Encourage them to forward the email to anyone who they know could use your talent.
3. Agree to use your talent to help others for free, with the condition that they:
a) Use the help you've given them to improve themselves, or
b) Use their talent in a similar fashion to help others
The Cost: your time.
The Benefit: you can impact your surroundings one person at a time.
My talents are writing and editing; I can write resumes, cover letters, bios, press releases, business plans - you name it, I can write or edit it.
For the next week, I'm committed to helping anyone who needs writing help, with the stipulation that you should either:
- use my help to improve yourself (i.e. if I help you with your resume/cover letter, you should be proactively searching for a job), or
- use your own talent in a similar manner to help someone else
This works on the honor system, so I will just trust that you'll keep up your end of the bargain. :) You don't have to know me to enlist my help either, just send me an email and the help is yours!
(P.S. Business plans are a little more involved and obviously can't be done in a week's time...but I'll give you a good base to start with! :) )
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