"Want a big tip?"

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If you’re a restaurant server, listen closely: if you want a big tip, leave a piece of candy with the check. If you want a bigger tip, leave two pieces of candy. But maybe you’re asking, "Why candy?"

We know big smiles, and squatting to eye level when you’re taking orders increase tips, but why candy?

It’s not so much the candy as it is the life principle that what goes around, comes around. You see, you as the server give something to the customer that’s free. Your act of generosity prompts another act of generosity, i.e., the customer responds by leaving a more generous tip.

All of life works this way. If you want to receive, you give. If you want to save your life, you lose it in following God’s ways. The blessings you receive are in direct proportion to the blessings you give. The forgiveness you receive is determined by the forgiveness you offer others.

So today, decide what it is you want most from life, and give it away. That’s one more way to make a life, not just a living.

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