<p><img decoding="async" title="Jim Stovall - motivational speaker and inspirational author" src="http://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/jim-stovall-10.jpg" border="0" alt="" align="left" />Giving is the most misunderstood and complicated interaction that we face.  Whether it&#8217;s giving our time, our effort, or our money, it&#8217;s hard to do the right thing for the right reason.  There are certainly many needs in our own communities and around the world.  We need to take some responsibility to find the appropriate place where we can make a true difference for other people.</p>
<p>At the same time, we each have a need to become a giver.  This is the complicated part of the formula because it requires us to fulfill a need in our own life while addressing the needs of other people.  <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2010/12/giving-and-receiving-by-jim-stovall/" title="Permanent Link: Giving and Receiving by Jim Stovall" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":313,"date":"2010-12-10T08:12:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T13:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=313"},"modified":"2012-07-26T10:34:43","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T15:34:43","slug":"giving-and-receiving-by-jim-stovall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2010\/12\/giving-and-receiving-by-jim-stovall\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving and Receiving by Jim Stovall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Jim Stovall - motivational speaker and inspirational author\" src=\"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/jim-stovall-10.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" \/>Giving is the most misunderstood and complicated interaction that we face.  Whether it&#8217;s giving our time, our effort, or our money, it&#8217;s hard to do the right thing for the right reason.  There are certainly many needs in our own communities and around the world.  We need to take some responsibility to find the appropriate place where we can make a true difference for other people.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, we each have a need to become a giver.  This is the complicated part of the formula because it requires us to fulfill a need in our own life while addressing the needs of other people.  <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2010\/12\/giving-and-receiving-by-jim-stovall\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Giving and Receiving by Jim Stovall\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}