No matter how you decide to spend a little more time on your gestures of giving, the point is just quite simply that you do.
I've had to learn and discipline myself that I'm much happier and much less depressed if I give myself a project. It's just that simple.
I always call performing live "giving the people the medicine," because when you're engaged in it, you can feel the sort of soul magic being exchanged between the performer and the audience.