The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.

We can choose the way of compassion, the way of forgiveness, the way of generosity. Or we can choose other paths and those have very real consequences in the world. This is absolutely crucial.

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

The Talmud teaches that there are four kinds of people in the world. The first person says, What's yours is mine. The second person says, What's yours is yours. The third person says, What's mine is mine. And the fourth person says, What's mine is yours. Which one are you?

If the blessing stops with you, it'll eventually stop altogether! Instead of being a conduit for blessing and maintaining forward momentum, we settle for sideways energy.

So how do we conserve the momentum of God's blessing? At the risk of sounding like a memorandum issued by the department of redundancy department, the only way to maintain momentum is to flip the blessing. If we fail to flip the blessing, we hit the point of diminishing return. Eventually, we lose all spiritual momentum and wonder why. I'll tell you exactly why: God doesn't bless selfishness.

When God blesses you financially, don't raise your standard of living. Raise your standard of giving.

Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up.

But I also happen to be someone who believes in tithing--the giving of a tenth .

What you give becomes an investment that will return to you multiplied at some point in the future.