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Do Good, Feel Good

Doing Good Deeds Delivers Health Benefits

Every day, you work hard to fulfill your passion — whether it’s successfully building your business, making lots of money or making the next big discovery that changes the world. You may spend hours coding a new website to perfection or rewriting a blog until it sings. Working hard brings significant rewards. If it didn’t, you wouldn’t spend so much energy on it.

Most things in life have at their core a selfish nature. If it doesn’t give you some sort of reward, then it’s difficult to muster up the will power to finish … or even start. The same concept applies to doing good deeds. When you do good things for others, you feel good. You receive a ton of benefits that are measurable, from physical health benefits to a greater sense of mental well-being and a sense of purpose.

Yeah, But…

As an internet entrepreneur or a website developer, you’re under an enormous amount of pressure to beat the competition, stay on top of pressing projects and keep up with all the changes that come to the industry at lightning speed. All that takes time.
So … when you’re presented with the opportunity to do a little good for someone else, it’s easy to agree with the concept, but even easier to slough it off with excuses, such as:

The “yeah, but” tendency grows and multiplies until you find yourself not only missing out on the health benefits that altruism affords, but actually creating more stress in your life. Guilt builds, leading to a lack of empathy and compassion. The next thing you know, you’re dealing with hoarding and isolation in a lifestyle of greed.

Selfish and Good

In actuality, you can be selfish and still do plenty of good in the world. Researchers hold that being selfish may be one of the most important ingredients in a life filled with random acts of kindness. Being selfish and doing good are not exclusive. When you start reaping all the health benefits of being a giving, altruistic human being, you want more of that good stuff — and the cycle continues.

Consider some of the proven health benefits of living with an intention to do good deeds and treat others with kindness every day:

Leave it to Oprah to sum it up:

“If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.


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