To give or not to give your secret sauce and law of reciprocity

To give it or not to give all your secrets away?

I just invested hours today into my creative outlet and was baking easy vegan recipes from an account I found on IG.

Gotta love social media when we use them to create more than consume right?

This girl @peanutbutterandjilly shares all her recipes easily online and I was so inspired to bake today and then I’m like this girl is amazing I want to support her and I invested in her new book.

I might never use the book as I like to just go online browse and cook right from there.

Yet even though she shares all online I felt like I want to support her gifts.

There is the law of reciprocity we unconsciously follow (sometimes consciously too.

We feel like we already got something so we want to gift to the generous person too.

Now there are a couple accounts I follow that have great ideas and share inspiration but NO recipes.

You get to buy the book to cook with them.

Which I never did.

The price doesn’t matter. 

For me it’s the principle.

When I find value first then I want to also give.

Vs not really knowing what I’m getting and investing.

That’s why I love sharing lots of value on my social media.

I give actionable steps and how I did things and for some people it’s all they need, for some they want to go deeper and not to do it alone and then hire me.

I’m not attached to either.

I love being of service and support other women in their dreams.

How about you?

Are you sharing or storing your secret sauces?