In my town we have a Facebook group called “{town name} Shares.” In other towns it is called “Buy Nothing {town name}.” The model is that you wish for something on the group for all to see and someone responds that they have it so you come by and pick it up. No cost. And vice versa: you offer something and wait for someone to say they want it (done in “flash gives” where it’s first-come-first-served or in regular gives and then you choose whom to give it to).

I am pleased to be a Top Contributor in my town, as we are clear out the accumulated acquisitions of decades from my kids, plus the other things we no longer need. Believe me when I say I think the house is rising up from the foundation as we give boxes of stuff away.

And I do like to get stuff that others do not need anymore, that I need now, as in the picture above.

LinkedIn pivot: be a top contributor not only of physical stuff, but of cerebral stuff you can offer others, even when you are not being compensated for it. Yes, I am all for being compensated, but since it’s better to receive, and what goes around comes around.

So offer insights, comments, congratulations, ideas, experience, knowledge, articles you read, articles you wrote, insights into what you are working on, etc. Make these posts “flash gives” as identified above, because being int he movement and responsive is an attribute we do not see all that often on a regular, customary basis these days.

Give to get. You’ll be amazed.