Pay It Forward
Pay
it forward is a term describing the beneficiary of a good deed repaying it to
others instead of to the original benefactor. The concept is old, but the
phrase may have been coined by Lily Hardy Hammond in her 1916 book In the
Garden of Delight. She wrote, “You don’t pay love back; you pay it
forward.”
The
phrase is even older than that. Pay it forward was used as a key plot in the
play by Menander, Dyskolos (a title which can be translated as
“The Grouch”). Dyskolos was a prizewinning play in ancient Athens in 317
BC; however, the text of the play was lost and it was not re-published until
1957. The concept was rediscovered and described by Benjamin Franklin in
a letter to Benjamin Webb dated April 25, 1784: “I do not pretend to give such
a deed; I only lend it to you. When you meet another honest Man in similar
Distress, you must pay me by lending this Sum to him; enjoining him to
discharge the Debt by a like operation, when he shall be able, and shall meet
with another opportunity. I hope it may thus go thro’ many hands…This is a
trick of mine for doing a deal of good with a little money.”
Some
of you reading this are “paying it forward” in a couple of ways. For one, you
give of your means to the political action committee connected to the
premier association for professional insurance and financial advisors – NAIFA.
Your contribution is combined with those of others to protect this noble
profession and preserve the ability to help our fellow man solve the financial
problems of life. Second, many of you have asked other agents to join you in
the effort by recruiting them as contributors to the PAC. You are paying it
forward and we thank you for that.
Time
for an “atta boy” to all those who responded to the “100% back in July”
promotion we ran. Thanks to all those who continued their monthly PAC
contributions and a special thanks to those who stepped forward to write a
separate check during the month of July. For the month of July 2013 NAIFA set
aside the usual 50-50 split rule and returned 100% of all political
contributions to NAIFA WA. Final reports are not yet published but it appears
we doubled the normal contributions made in a month. This means we will have a
jump start of the “war chest“that will be used in the coming 2014 election
cycle. ATTA BOY! ATTA GIRL!
Remember
the words of Benjamin Franklin, “…doing a deal of good with a little money.”
That’s what we do with our $10 per month contribution to IFAPAC; we do a deal
of good with a little money. Equally important is that when we meet another
honest man or woman in this business you enjoin them to do likewise. There is
much to do and we need to “enjoin” as many agents as possible to participate.
Use the IFAPAC forms in this newsletter to Pay It Forward.
Richard Ek, LUTCF
State IFAPAC Chairman
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