Ask yourself, “What’s my top priority for giving this gift?”
Within reason, your top priority for giving a gift should be to maximize the practical and/or emotional value your gift will offer its recipient.
If your top priority is something else, you may be subconsciously optimizing for selfish motives.
Here are a couple of priorities that I sometimes catch myself optimizing for over maximizing the value my gift will offer its recipient:
Within reason, your top priority for giving a gift should be to maximize the practical and/or emotional value your gift will offer its recipient.
If your top priority is something else, you may be subconsciously optimizing for selfish motives.
Here are a couple of priorities that I sometimes catch myself optimizing for over maximizing the value my gift will offer its recipient:
- The joy and excitement that I’ll feel seeing them open my gift.
- Avoiding the uncomfortableness that I’ll feel giving them something “thoughtless” – like money – when that’s what they ask for and/or value the most.
To get back on the right track recalibrate and then consider other gift ideas that maximize the practical and/or emotional value my gift will offer its recipient.
*From the author of the one-minute newsletter, Better Gift Coach
