Reach Your Goals - Give Back

Once you‘ve achieved success, use your skills, talents, position and influence to help others. Have you finally made it famous? Volunteer to show up at benefits to draw in the crowds (and the donations). Has your artistic ability finally achieved a level that garners（n.  谷仓, 积蓄 vt.  储存, 贮藏） good prices and lauded（n.  赞美, 称赞 vt.  赞美, 称赞） praise? Donate some works to a charity, or offer to do a mural（a.  壁的, 壁上的, 壁似的 n.  壁画）or other piece for someone or some place that could really use it. Made your first million? Well, you get the picture.

What comes around must go around, if the system is to be kept active and healthy. Just as water cannot come out the end of a blocked hose（n.  水管, 橡皮软管, 长统袜 vt.  用水管浇）, even with the inlet（n.  进口, 插入物 [化] 入口; 进口; 投料口; 供料口 [医] 入口, 进[水]口） valve（n.  活瓣, 阀, 活门 vt.  装阀, 用阀调节 vi.  装阀, 用阀调节） opened wide, hoarding（n.  贮藏物, 密藏的金钱 vt.  囤积, 贮藏 vi.  囤积, 贮藏） your successes to yourself will eventually shrivel（vt.  (使)起皱纹, (使)枯萎, (使)束手无策 vi.  (使)起皱纹, (使)枯萎, (使)束手无策） up the stream of energy and vitality（n.  活力, 生命力） you need to maintain it, not to mention keeping that power out of the world-wide playing field where it can do some good.