We want to be responsible for our own success. We want it to feel like we have earned it all by our own effort.
Because of this we don’t ask for help.
But we don’t have to do it all! Sometimes we need help and it is OK to ask for help.
Today we are going to tap for being easy with ourselves when it comes to reaching out for help.
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I want to be successful…I want to be responsible for my own success…I want to know that I worked really hard…And to have the sense that I have earned all of this…But there’s a part of me…That feels like the only way…That this can happen…Is if I am doing it all…If I am doing everything…Because if I don’t…Then it’s not my success…It’s someone else’s success…It’s something that’s been handed to me…It’s not about me…But I don’t expect myself to grow my own food…I don’t expect myself to make my own clothes…I don’t expect myself to fix my own car…I don’t expect myself to build my own house…There are lots of things that I get help with…And getting help as I move towards my goals…Especially with the things that I don’t know how to do…The things I’m not very skilled at…And the things that I don’t want to do…Will save me time…Will save me effort…Will give me the opportunity…To concentrate on the things…That are truly my genius…The things that I am made for…The things that I am about…It is not a failing to get help…It is not a failing to reach out…It is not a failing to hand over the things to someone else…When it is their specialty…The success can be mine…Even if I don’t do it all…The success can be mine…Even if I don’t understand it all…It simply matters that…I’m doing what I can…And I’m getting help with what I can’t…It’s not a failure…That’s being smart.
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