Ask For Help

#4 Help is working.  It does pay to ask.

Yesterday I was wondering if things were ever going to change.  If I had stuffed my pipeline full.  Yesterday a friend (someone who I asked for help awhile back) came through with suggestion.  A job I had responded too came through this morning (when I sent a follow-up email to the recruiter yesterday) to schedule a phone interview.  So, these two things will not necessarily come to any fruition of work; but it does tell me my pipeline stuffing is producing some results. 

Let me clarify the phrase I keep using as “pipeline stuffing.”  In a past career, I was involved in an MLM and they were always suggesting to keep putting recruits (people) into your business pipeline.  The more you got involved the faster you could grow your business with people accepting the challenge.  In MLM it is all about the downlines.   A product was away of having an item to market but distribution was the name of the game.  I wasn’t very good in this area as it was hard to sale the opportunity to people who weren’t really open to making cold calls and hearing rejection over and over.  It’s a tough business for sure.

Help can come in all shapes, forms, and electronic means.  I just hope that I can recognize it when it arrives.  But to recognize I must be open to receiving it.  (That kind of sounds like a preacher from the pulpit – trust me I am not that.)  Yet I don’t think I am always open to it.  In fact, I mostly hate asking for it because I don’t want to be a bother.  I don’t want people to think “less” of me.  I don’t want to appear to be weak.  Have you ever felt like this?

I got this with some help is my new mantra because I felt like the above all the time.  The older I become, the more I recognize I must ask.  I can’t lift the way I use too.  I can’t make money like I use too.  I can’t don a lot I use to do.  But I got this with some help. 

DaddiO