People in business tend to breakdown to one of three categories:

- No exchange: They only ever ask or take. Asking for referrals. Inviting you to programs or to pay them money for something. Asking for connections.

*NB 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜．𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑓𝑢𝑙， 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑡 𝑒𝑡𝑐

- Symbiotic exchange: You give, they give. You add value, they add value right back. Not compulsively, but because that’s who they are - they are reciprocators

- Abundant exchange: they consistently do what they can to make your life better, easier, more fluid. They care about your success. They’ll send you referrals, resources, suggestions that make something more easeful. They aren’t keeping tallies and they aren’t storing resentment. They trust it will come back in some capacity

These people are DELIGHTFUL to be around. Being in a conversation with one is hilarious because it’s almost like a one-up competition for who can change the other person’s life the most radically.

The super danger zone - and the one to watch out for - is if you are an abundant exchange person and you get connected with a no exchange person.

You’ll give and give without keeping score, and they will take and take without thoughts of reciprocation.

My suggestion is just to do a scan every once in a while and ask yourself:

Where am I giving without thought of receiving that I am not ACTUALLY getting anything back. 💗💕

I’m going to tag my abundant exchange peeps below, feel free to do the same and show them you see them 🥰