Keys to Feeling Connected

Here are three keys to creating the kind of community we all need and desire.

1.    Serve
2.    Invest
3.    Honesty

Each time I witness these beautiful over the top acts of generosity and kindness often one or all of these keys are in play. When you serve other people you create the desire in others to serve also. Sometimes the serving is directed back at you and other times the serving is like a “pay it forward” and directed toward others. Either way serving bears fruitfulness.

When you serve other people without the hopes of getting something back for yourself, you set your self up to be extremely blessed.  It truly is far better to give than to receive. When you serve others because you are passionate about helping others feel a part of a community, then and only then will you truly start to feel a part of the community yourself. 

This is very important…
WHEN YOU BEGIN HELPING OTHERS TO FEEL CONNECTED TO SOMETHING GREATER THAN THEMSELVES, YOU WILL FEEL DEEPLY CONNECTED TO THAT MISSION YOURSELF.

When you help others to get and feel connected, you have a personal and vested interest in the community and into the outcome of the people you are intentionally trying to connect. You then deepen your sense of community and feel deeply connected and passionate about seeing it flourish.

When you invest in someone, you care about how they feel in the community, you care about what kinds of experiences they are having inside the community and you often will go out of your way to help them in any way you can. You are intentional about creating a positive experience for those you are trying to connect. The community becomes personal to you because you are trying to help others get connected and you want connection to be the result of your investment.

We simply cannot connect them just to ourselves because in ourselves there is not enough time, energy, or resources to meet the needs. Ultimately you want to help others meet other people and then after a little time hope they do the same thing for someone else. That is multiplication at it’s finest and ultimately the goal of community.

Do you have anyone in your life right now you are intentionally working to connect to your community?