Help people without keeping score out loud. Quiet favors come back with interest.

Announcing a favor turns it into a transaction, and the other person now owes you instead of liking you. Quiet help does something different. It builds a reputation you never campaigned for, and it comes back in ways you could not have arranged, often years later and from a direction you had forgotten. The scorekeeping is what breaks it.

Do one useful thing this week that you do not mention afterward. Resist the urge to bring it up later in an argument. If you catch yourself waiting for the thanks, that is worth sitting with rather than acting on.