Sep
Help!!!
I need some, but I don’t know how to ask for it. Actually, I don’t like asking for it. It’s bad really. I would rather lose my house, my job, my husband, maybe even my life, certainly a limb, than ask for help.
What’s the big deal? There are so many ways to ask for or request help. Where is the museum? Can you help me install this software? I need help. Help:-)
The thing that prevents me from uttering a phrase or request for help is my pride. So strong, so bold, so right, yet so alone. Not to mention stupid and dangerous. I don’t like admitting that I don’t know something or that I messed up. However, I observe from my end of the Universe that people who ask for help implicitly and explicitly are so much better off. They aren’t lazy or irresponsible as the tape in my mind keeps telling me. In fact, they are healthy, prosperous. well-adjusted human beings.
So I’m taking a leap today. I need help setting aside my pride. Can you help me?
October 1st, 2006 at 6:54 pm
Well first, you could look at your previous post about what to do when life gets tough. Many of those ideas would fit this situation.
Another way you could do this is to spin it in your mind. Instead of thinking that by asking for help you would be showing weakness by admitting you don’t know something, think of it as a love of learning. I love to learn new things so to me, asking people what they know is learning from them.
October 1st, 2006 at 8:20 pm
DG, thank you for stopping by.
That’s a great way to look at it. I really do like learning so thinking of it in that light would certainly help. Life is so full of information and lessons.