Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

THE LAW OF COMPENSATION
The Law of Compensation seems to apply directly to relationships.
This law says that you get out what you put in, and 
the more you put
in, the more you get out
. The more things that you do for other peo-
ple, the more things other people will want to do for you. When you
offer to help or serve others, they will want to help or serve you.
What goes around comes around. Whatever you sow you will even-
tually reap.
We have entered into the era of the “go-giver” rather than just the
go-getter. Each person has a deep desire to reciprocate in his or her
relations with others. We want to even things up when anything nice
has been done for us. We want to pay people back for any kindnesses
or favors. We don’t want to feel that we are obligated to another.
Nowhere is this principle more important than in relationships.
There are many people who think that the key to success is to
get around other successful people and then to exploit this relation-
ship. This strategy seldom works. It is much better for you to be-
come the kind of person that other people want to be around. When