Who do you think you are? Superman?
GET SOME HELP!
You don’t really believe that the best way of doing whatever it is you’ve got to do is alone, but you like to think of yourself as an “independent woman” or “a man who can”.
Your distorted sense of pride is stopping you doing one of two things:
- Asking for help; and/or
- Accepting help when it’s offered
Take the following situation, one we can all relate to:
Your prize-winning collection of Koi carp need to be vaccinated against seasonal flu. You’ve got two hundred of the buggers, and they’re slippery customers. Getting hold of them is one thing, let alone keeping them still long enough to vaccinate them.
You devise a method of doing it, and estimate that it will take you five minutes to net, jab, tag and release each fish.
(5 Minutes) x (200 fish) = Fucking Ages
On top of that you’ve had a dinner planned with your sexy estate-agent in five hours time.
Here’s how you do it:
…
Get five people to help you.
BANG! Seventeen hours of work distilled into four. Your sanity saved and the prospect of shacking up with aforementioned sexy estate-agent tripled, thus guaranteeing a life-time of spiritual harmony and breakfast in bed.
Simple, huh?
And the beauty of this trick is this:
it doesn’t apply only to innoculating expensive fish.
Shopping, housework, envelope-licking, data-entry, house-building, holiday-planning and all manner of getting things done can be made shorter and more enjoyable by accepting help.
- If you don’t have any friends, pay somebody to help you.
- If you don’t have any money, get some friends.
So swallow your pride, take a deep breath, and swallow it up, sucker:
You Can’t Always Do It On Your Own.
