Hello Everyone & Welcome Back to the RealPositiveGirl Podcast!
Thank you so much for joining me again!
Happy Wednesday!
This week's theme for the podcast is: Getting Help/Asking for Help
This week we are going to speak about how important it is to ask for help & why it isn't burdensome, how it will help our egos & pride to do so & the connection you gain by reaching out to others.
Join me in learning more about the importance of asking for help this week!
Here are some notes from today's episode:
- Asking for help can seem like such a simple task, but when you actually go to do it, it can be really hard because we let our thoughts get us all twisted up & be in our own way.
- Asking for help can also be even harder, depending on the subject at hand. For example, it may be super easy for you to ask for help at work but really difficult to ask for help in regards to your mental health. Or maybe it’s easy to ask for help with chores around the house but asking for help at work gives you literal anxiety.
- Before you decide to ask someone for help, please make sure you go into the asking part with as much humbleness as possible. What I mean by this is try to leave your ego & pride at the door. You want to make sure you don’t boast too much in your request for help, which makes it sound less like you need help & more like you are ALLOWING someone to help you when you actually need help.
- First, I would suggest figuring out what exactly you need help with. It’s best to really narrow down what your request will be when it comes to that point & to understand why you are unable to get whatever done on your own. You will feel so much better & not like you are less than or incompetent if you truly understand why you are unable to complete the task by yourself.
- Next, make sure the person you ask for help is either experienced in the area you need help or at least is generally willing to be helpful. That’s not to say you can’t ask someone you don’t really know for help & not know if they are either of those things, but it’s easier if they are. This will also help the whole process be much more efficient & not possibly require you to find someone else to help because the first person didn’t work out.
- Next, spend some time figuring out some possible solutions to what you need help with it so that you have some suggestions when you go to ask someone for help. It can be helpful to go to the person with some possible solutions already thought up, saving that person some work on how to help.
- And with that, it’s also important to be specific in what you need help with. Being ambiguous will create complications & confusion for the person trying to help you. Narrow down for you need as much as possible & present them with those thoughts & ideas.
- Lastly, before you ask for help I want you to consider what the other person may be going through. Think about timing. And I understand that this can create some issues & cause some people to just not ask at all because they assume everyone is always too busy. But what I mean by this is if that person is going through something really tough you know about, maybe don’t ask for help then or seek someone else during that time. Just have a little bit of awareness for what would work best for them to assist you.
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