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TRY THIS:
Become a banker. Invest in your future. Make a charity box (tzedaka box) in your house, and give a coin every day (hey, not on Shabbat!)

REMEMBER THIS:
And the most important thing to remember is to EMPTY the box regularly and give it to a needy Jewish charity, because a box of coins on the shelf does nothing. Nada. Zip - until it is in the hands of the needy people.

DEEPER MEANINGS:
There once was a well intended husband and wife who were diligent in the mitzvah of tzedaka. They proudly showed me the coins they had given over the years. But all the coins were still in the boxes they had set aside! None of them had been actually given to a charity. Now realizing their error they gave the coins to a very worthy cause, VERY quickly. Bless them.

Let us add, Jewish charity should go to Jewish causes, and to the most needy ones you can find. You can make a second charity box if you want to help Save The Seals, the rainforests or any other thing you're into. But if you want to do a Jewish "thing", give your tzedaka dollars to the neediest Jewish causes you can find.

Don't know of any? Email us and we'll tell you how to get your charity dollars to Israel to help the really poor of the holy land, with 0% taken off for any other expenses. Many US charity offices take money off for the secretary, percolator, electricity, etc.

Now is the time to generate more and more mitzvot. Don't delay on this one.