Nov. 27, 2023

Wait!!! Are You Being a Selfish Gift-Giver?

Ask yourself, “What’s my top priority for giving this gift?”

Within reason, your top priority for giving a gift should be to maximize the practical and/or emotional value your gift will offer its recipient.

If your top priority is something else, you may be subconsciously optimizing for selfish motives.

Here are a couple of priorities that I sometimes catch myself optimizing for over maximizing the value my gift will offer its recipient:
  1. The joy and excitement that I’ll feel seeing them open my gift. 
  2. Avoiding the uncomfortableness that I’ll feel giving them something “thoughtless” – like money – when that’s what they ask for and/or value the most.
If you find yourself falling into one of these selfish gift-giving traps…go easy on yourself. We are all guilty of falling prey to them on occasion.
 
To get back on the right track recalibrate and then consider other gift ideas that maximize the practical and/or emotional value my gift will offer its recipient.
 
*From the author of the one-minute newsletter, Better Gift Coach 
Practical Applications For Personal Values
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Patrick is the writer for the acclaimed one-minute newsletter, Better Gift Coach.

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