Chris Harder

And starting years ago, Steve and his wife said, I'm going to give $50,000 this year.

Now, they didn't have a lot of money.

I think they were probably making $150,000 a year at the time when they made this commitment.

So that's a bold commitment.

But because they committed to it, they then had to flip the script and say, oh God, if we're gonna keep this promise,

how are we going to find an extra $50,000 to make sure we keep our promise?

And sure enough, at the end of the year, they had a record income year.

So they said, well, that worked pretty good.

Why don't I up it?

And I think they upped it, I'm not kidding, to $250,000 from 50 to 50.

I know, sounds crazy, right?

And they had no idea where that 250 was going to come from, but they said, well, we better find a way, right?

Ask a better question, get a better answer.

Well, we better find a way, where are we going to be able to get this extra 250 from?

And then that became their first seven-figure year.

They far exceeded seven figures.

And so because they had the evidence, they said, well, I'm just going to keep choosing a big, audacious giving goal that we commit to and that we hold ourselves to because it's forcing us to then go out, earn the challenge of keeping up whatever we committed to as a giving goal.

So I'm telling you that leveraging...

The power of giving to other people will always come back and help you out tenfold.

Right, let's go back to our logical sides.