ANALYZING RELATIONSHIPS I experience and express the power of trust because . . . I realize I can never prove who I am with how much I do or give.

There comes a point in time when you must know that everything you have already given or done is enough. This is not something anyone else can tell you. Youmust know. Also know, if you continue down the path of trying, you will reach the point of diminishing returns. This applies more specifically to relationships. Remember, life is a process of giving and receiving. When you give with love or in joy, you must receive in equal measure. This does not mean that you should measure your giving. What this means is that your giving must be received with the same intensity with which it was given. In those relationships and situations where you give with no sense of satisfaction, either you are giving for the wrong reasons or what you give is not being received. It is being hoarded. It is being denied. It is being dishonored. Once you cross the line of diminishing returns, if you continue to give, you run the risk of being depleted in ways that can be irreversible. To continue giving without receiving doesn't prove anything except that you know how to be taken advantage of. Give with love. Give in joy. Give of yourself for the joy and love of giving. Just be aware that when your giving is received and honored, you must be justly compensated. Until today, you may have allowed yourself to stay in unbalanced, unhealthy relationships where you were required to give beyond the point where it was necessary or wise. Just for today, consider those experiences where you are experiencing a diminishing return on your mental, emotional, spiritual or physical investments. Today I am devoted to analyzing the relationships in which I am not being compensated for investments I make! From Until Today! by Iyanla Vanzant