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When I was a kid I was always told that helping others, commenting about other people’s good stuff or sharing what I have learned would work against me because I will give them an edge or advantage over me.

I was convinced that so was it and I would always keep my secrets for me. I was thinking in a very competitive way and in some way isolating myself from the whole world protecting what I would have thought would be my very last drop of creativity.

I was way wrong. Thank God, I noticed that this was a mistake quite early in my life. The way I noticed the power of sharing was when I was at the University.

I was working on my Information Technology bachelor degree. I was very good and the word spread quite fast that I was getting good grades all the time, friends started to come to me in order to help them with some topics, they really enjoyed my way to explain things out and I was also enjoying the process, in no time and with no real desire that things would have worked out this way I ended up with a classroom full of other students which would pay me for teaching. Amazingly enough I saved all that money to pay my studies.

So let’s see… what have I learned from the power of sharing?:

1. It helped me improve my own knowledge

2. It made me very popular (also with the girls )

3. People were so grateful that they would always stand out for me when I needed help.

We need to remember that each person has its own talents which can help you in your wishes so why not earn those people’s respect?.

This point reminds me a great personal experience:

Those days when I was teaching my student colleagues, I was also engaged in my own personal business. I was doing some phone calls in a calling center and for business reasons the call extended way too much for me to be able to pay it with the cash I had available, I could not really just hang up so I was really sweating cold at that moment. Once I was done I started to think what I would do to convince the cashier to let me go get some money to pay, on my way to the cashier someone would shout my name, even though I was not able to see anyone I would hear my name again… then I noticed… behind a hidden office (the “boss” office) was one of these guys I was teaching at the University… I greeted him and explained my situation and he just said: “No worries I will take care of that, you have helped me a lot and this is the least I can do for you” , long story short I just got a very important business call for FREE.

This moment was like a big bang in my awareness of how the universe works everything for us.

4. I got paid for helping other people who would help me pay my own studies.

5. I felt great to know that I was helping other people.

One of the reasons I was more than happy to share my knowledge was because I felt myself secure that there was enough for everyone and that teaching will not create people who will compete against me, I am not saying that they will not, but it was just my perception of things that made things work so great. Unconsciously, I erased all fears, selfishness and insecurities about me and what could happen.

This experience revealed me the next big secret: The Universal law of “What you give you shall receive”.

If you are aware enough you will notice this immediately, it just work this way, you give something and you will receive what you need back it works like magic and this makes everyone’s life quite easy.

After this moment I would always work things out in a share and help basis and I would always be replenished with new help to achieve my goals.

Under that same belief I am building my way up for this blog and I feel happy on how things are working out.

My friend Jonathan Fields did a great research which was converted to a worth reading article:

Top bloggers reveal how to build traffic off-blog without spending a dime

If you take a moment to read this article you will notice what is the main action of several top bloggers in terms of achieving the most desired goal to build traffic, in short words:

SOCIAL NETWORKING

Social Networking means, sharing, contributing, helping others, make people happy; spread your good will to make others successful.

Quite in line with the premise: “What you give you shall receive”.

It is important to understand that this applies to everything in life, not just your blog or your personal life, it is just that you need to understand that everything in life is very closely related and you are not alone, so every individual action around you will certainly have some influence in you, so what is the big deal to help others out, you will get benefited with it. Just make this a habit and you will notice in no time that things will go much better than they were before.

Always remember this: “A candle looses nothing by lighting another candle”.