Since I started doing more daily exercises and physical activities, the life has become so much more enjoyable, meaningful and abundant.

I had felt the need for more physical activities before but never done anything consistently since I had my first child. Life can be full of excuses with family/business commitment and demanding everyday chores. But this time, I actually took action.

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The small hotel operator in New Zealand called me just to say, ‘Oh my Goodness, it really works. We just had two people book in who’d seen the B1G1 logo on our ad.”

It’s great, of course. But not ‘validated’ in the strictest sense of the word just like all the feedback we get on B1G giving. From the Education Centre that tells us bookings are up 60 per cent in 4 months to the Weight Loss Solution that refers to being overwhelmed by the media coverage she’s got since she became a B1G1 Business.

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Just on my way home from a friend’s christening (well, their new baby’s christening). And on the car radio I heard an interview with the President of Microsoft Africa, Dr Cheick Modibo Diarra .

At one point the interviewer asked about Microsoft’s pricing and image in Africa particularly in view of some of the ‘challenges’ the company has faced in terms of anti-trust legislation.

Dr. Diarra told how Microsoft’s pricing included ‘everything’ as compared with all the free stuff out there. And in relation to the image question he said, “How many people know about the good we do? How

If you're like me, every so often you go back through your files to review the 'standout' things.

Hopefully each one has resonance in one way or another. But one in particular from my friend Tim Wade  in Singapore stood out for me. 

Tim is a great writer, speaker and ALWAYS can be relied upon to bring insights. In his note, Tim reflected on what has been an amazing year for him. And then he said this:

Then there was the financial crisis. In truth, it's not really that big a deal. With 80% of the people in the world living below $10 a day and 50% living on less

In a radio interview a few weeks ago, the host told me how he’d actually cross to the other side of the road if he saw a charity group ahead of him ‘rattling a tin under everyone’s nose’.

And a senior executive in a major corporation told me how the way the giving worked in their company was essentially like this: ‘we figure out what the profit is and then we decide how much of that we can give away – taking into account tax breaks of course’.

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Last week, our very good and highly talented friend Carl Bates held the first Sirdar Extreme Business Summit in South Africa. 60 delegates from start-ups, small business and established enterprises were all able to benefit from Carls’s crystal clear awareness of what business really needs to do to achieve extreme business success.

And importantly, since Sirdar is a B1G1 Business , all of those delegates got to give back, automatically and big time. Thanks to the power of B1G1 transaction-based giving, just by being there, every delegate was able to feed a child for two and a half

[Thank you to Louise Gilbert for writing this piece]

Every Buy1GIVE1 Business Member we talk to is guided by a higher purpose and expresses that purpose and passion through work they love. Giving could be considered an art: an art that arranges our business activities in a certain way that appeals to our emotions, and expresses what we desire at the deepest level - to make a difference somewhere else in the world.

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February 27, 2009

Interesting day today. A major international philanthropic NewsWire (Triple Pundit) picked up the Buy1GIVE1 'story' and circulated it worldwide in the form of a conversation between the editor and me as B1G1 Chairman.

If you'd like to go to the Triple Pundit site to view it, just click here. Or, if you'd like to save a click, we've reproduced the text of the article for you right here. Hope you like it. Come join us.

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Sometimes, we may feel that our individual and everyday activities don’t make much of a difference.

But what if they did? What if people around the world set up their businesses so that every single transaction made a positive difference? What a world that would be; and that is actually the world of Buy One Give One. And it’s now becoming a global movement.

This transaction-based giving movement is now inspiring and transforming our world. It is a new and immediately effective form of philanthropy, serving the worlds poor with practical gifts from every sale.

Several

Like you, I’ve received so many wonderful Christmas messages this year.

And each one has resonance in one way or another. But one in particular from my friend Tim Wade stood out for me.

Tim is a great writer, speaker and ALWAYS can be relied upon to bring insights. In his note, Tim reflected on what has been an amazing year for him. And then he said this:

Then there was the financial crisis. In truth, it's not really that

big a deal. With 80% of the people in the world living below $10

a day and 50% living on less than $2.50 a day¹,

the crisis has only really

Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting Dee Allan.

She’s the MD of 3C Synergy, a recruitment company specialising in the construction industry. She gave me a new distinction around pledging versus actually giving. Let’s check it out and see what you think.

Dee ‘found’ Buy1GIVE1 quite by chance on the Internet a year ago. At the time, she was planning to move her company from the UK to Singapore and she knew that might be risky – she knew, as she puts it – that she’d have some lean months and some spectacular months too.

Dee is what we might call a ‘natural’ giver – she really does get

Paul Dunn from Buy1GIVE1 got rated as the number 1 presenter at the recent CSR forum in Singapore. Business people around the world came to this recent conference to explore the latest CSR topics.

He was also interviewed by a reporter (Alicia Wong) from 'Today' newspaper after his presentation.

Read the article here .

Buy1GIVE1 transaction-based giving is now being recognised as one effective way to create more synergy and energy in organisations.

Although it's small, the impact is huge. Buy1GIVE1 has released a short film that expresses the depth of the message this giving movement carries.

What Are We Looking For?

If you know 'The Law of Attraction', you already know that the key to living the life we want is all about feeling good. But there is something we could miss if our focus is only about visualising and believing in the life we want to lead.

The new movie released from Buy1GIVE1 shows the simple resonance of giving. We will become ever more aware why giving is a crucial part of our lives -- something we are meant to do naturally

It's amazing how people 'get' Buy1GIVE1.

We were at a conference this week in Australia. And a health professional rushed up to us excitedly: "I really get it now and I want to join right now too," she said.

She explained how she'd just seen Nicky Meehan's wonderful Maple Muesli (arguably the best muesli in the world as we mentioned in our very first newsletter - www.maplemuesli.com ). And right there on the muesli packet it tells you that when you buy the muesli, you feed a child in India.

And that simple thing made our health professional 'get it'. So now, every time someone comes to visit the

Find your giving story

Finding a great giving story which is totally practical and resonant for your particular product/service is the real key to making this transaction-based giving work instantly.

So, here is the opportunity for you to seriously consider your giving options. Buy1GIVE1 now has over 500 projects listed online and this list is expanding every week. Here are some examples of popular giving projects to which you can 'match' your transaction-based giving.

Did you know...?

Give water to a person in need - Providing clean water to one person for one day cost 1 cent through Buy1GIVE1.

Bees are all giving by nature. They give naturally to maintain the world of abundance. But each bee actually takes different role in maintaining the colony as well as the flower garden. So, I thought human beings are the same. We are all naturally giving and caring. But we tend to express our giving in different ways. So, here it is a 'giving bee' chart where you can find your bee type. Watch out for the following bee analysis! The more you share your value as a givine bee, the more we can do together make a difference.

 

You just have to check these guys blog out. They will soon have full online information available about how to buy their socks through the internet. They are surely the coolest sock company in the world! Each pair of socks sold supports a child in Mongolia to receive a free pair, protecting their toes from the desperate winter temperatures.

Check out the Socks for Happy People blog