Don’t wait until you’re successful to be generous. Generous is a habit, not a reward.

Generosity postponed until you can afford it rarely arrives, because the threshold moves upward as your income does. It works as a practice rather than as a consequence of having plenty, and people who give at every stage tend to be the same people who give later. Waiting quietly trains the opposite habit. What you do with a small amount is a decent predictor of what you would do with a large one.

Give something small away this week on purpose: a few dollars, an hour, something you own and never use. Make it regular at a size you barely notice.