Generous
gen·er·ous | \ ˈjen-rəs , ˈje-nə- \
marked by abundance or ample proportions
characterized by a noble or kindly spirit
Service
ser·vice | \ ˈsər-vəs \
contribution to the welfare of others
Transcript
welcome
to victorious in recovery what you're
about to hear is simply one man's
journey to victory over addiction
my ups and downs and everything in
between and the solutions that i find
along the way
my purpose is this
to let you know that you're not alone in
the things that we go through trying to
recover and that there is hope of a
recovered life from addiction my name is
david victorious and i'll be your host
[Music]
thank you for tuning in to victorious in
recovery
well it's been a pretty easy going week
for me
started out with some snow and
it's just overall been pretty enjoyable
although i i did have the same
issue this week that i've been having
lately and i just couldn't come up with
a
with the subject for
for the podcast
so i'm down to the line today and
i'm just shooting out messages i'm like
hey what do you think i should do hey
what do you think i should do
and finally somebody got back with me
and i'm like okay cool let's see what i
can come up with and
and you know i'm glad they they put it
out there
what my friend asked me to talk about
was
generosity and service
they didn't say anything else didn't say
what they wanted to know about it or
nothing they just said generosity
service and i was like okay well let's
see what i can come up with
so i started taking notes and
i came up with a few things
i'm gonna start out with
generosity and i was reading up a little
bit
and this article started out this way it
said
how did it make you feel
the last time somebody was generous
did it brighten your day
did you tell somebody about it
did it inspire you to pass kindness or
generosity onto somebody else
that sets the tone really
for what generosity and service
do or they the things that it can affect
we really we can't receive an act of
kindness
or generosity and not be positively
impacted in some way and that goes for
the flip side we can't be generous
or of service or kind and not be
positively impacted ourselves
generosity it's got that effect
you've probably heard it talked about
the butterfly effect
it's nobody can prove it
because it's a real abstract thing but
but it makes sense
because everything trickles down
everything rolls downhill
so when i'm generous it makes me feel
better
it makes the person feel better
they're more generous
and then it goes on and on and on and on
it creates this
avalanche an avalanche can start from a
branch dropping or
just one too many flakes of snow
one step in the wrong spot
and you can have an avalanche
that act that one little thing wasn't
big enough to push all the snow
but it was big enough to start a chain
reaction
and for me that's what encourages me
anytime i think about generosity is that
it has this chain reaction
even if it's not immediate even if it's
not noticeable
it makes an impact every time and in
addiction we have to be a little more
careful because we can try to be
generous to somebody that
isn't doing so well and it can actually
cause that avalanche effect in the wrong
direction so there is a certain level of
responsibility that goes with it too
there's even a like a bystander a third
party
that gets affected sometimes too
just somebody that happens to have
witnessed
an act of generosity
will many times take that and be
encouraged to
be generous themselves
and they say that there's
seven forms of generosity
and i agree with this but at the same
time i don't
and i'll tell you a little bit about
that at the end
but there's truth in all of this the
first one is generosity of thought
it can be forethought
to another act of service it can be
as simple as writing a review for
somebody
a restaurant a small business owner that
you know
you think about how good they are right
every a review
that that's being generous
that can start that chai
