Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 2: Today's tip is that help tends to come through other people.
Speaker 2: So if you are in a situation where you need
Speaker 2: some help, be open to what others can give you,
Speaker 2: and you just might find yourself doing a lot better.
Speaker 2: So there is an often told story about a very
Speaker 2: righteous religious man who is trapped in his house by
Speaker 2: a flood. As the water rises, he prays that God
Speaker 2: will rescue him. A rescue team comes by, but he
Speaker 2: waves them off because he is certain that God will intervene.
Speaker 2: Then a boat comes by and he waves that off too. Finally,
Speaker 2: a helicopter hovers outside his window, but he is still
Speaker 2: waiting for the Almighty Alas, that doesn't happen, and when
Speaker 2: he finds himself at the pearly gates, he asks God
Speaker 2: what went wrong? God, frustrated, notes that he sent a
Speaker 2: rescue team, a boat, and a helicopter. What else was
Speaker 2: he supposed to do? Now? I imagine that most of
Speaker 2: us aren't that stubborn, but all of us couldn't realize
Speaker 2: that when we need help in life, most likely that
Speaker 2: help is going to come in the form of other people.
Speaker 2: If you are depressed, you can hope that the depression
Speaker 2: will go away, and it might, but most likely that
Speaker 2: will happen through the care of a physician, the help
Speaker 2: of a therapist, and the support of family and friends.
Speaker 2: You can hope to find a job that won't make
Speaker 2: you miserable, but that new job will most likely come
Speaker 2: through an old colleague or a neighbor who knows someone
Speaker 2: who is hiring and puts in a good word for you.
Speaker 2: Even something like finding a new place to live is
Speaker 2: likely going to be the result of someone forwarding you
Speaker 2: a listing that she saw. We simply can't be aware
Speaker 2: of everything in the world, and the more deeply you
Speaker 2: are in a problem, the less likely you are to
Speaker 2: know the solution. It's going to have to come from
Speaker 2: somewhere else. This seems simple enough, but I think a
Speaker 2: lot of us don't think about reaching out for help
Speaker 2: and being open to the help that is offered nearly enough.
Speaker 2: We don't want to take advantage of people, and we shouldn't.
Speaker 2: But if a friend asked you for something that was
Speaker 2: within your power to do, my guess is that you
Speaker 2: would be happy to do it, and so if you
Speaker 2: are in a tough patch, be willing to reach out
Speaker 2: can make your life easier. A neighbor just might be
Speaker 2: willing to run to the drugstore for pediolite if you
Speaker 2: are stuck home alone with a sick kid. On a
Speaker 2: recent flight, a woman asked the flight attendant if she
Speaker 2: could ask us all to sit for twenty seconds so
Speaker 2: she could leave the plane to make a very tight connection.
Speaker 2: So the flight attendant asked, and we did, and everyone
Speaker 2: wished the woman good luck as she hustled down the aisle,
Speaker 2: and if people offered to help take it. My accountant
Speaker 2: recently offered to do something for me that perhaps I
Speaker 2: could have figured out with a very long call to
Speaker 2: the irs, but she was going to be a lot faster.
Speaker 2: A parent who was already at an event offered to
Speaker 2: drive my kids home so I didn't have to go
Speaker 2: out in the rain with my little ones. Wow, was
Speaker 2: I happy about that. If you are a nice and
Speaker 2: normal person, you probably don't make unreasonable requests, and you
Speaker 2: help others when you can as well. So go ahead
Speaker 2: and make life easier for yourself by saying yes to
Speaker 2: the help that is offered and asking for what you need.
Speaker 2: If you believe the story of the man with the
Speaker 2: boat in the helicopter. Even divine help is going to
Speaker 2: come through other people, so be open to it and
Speaker 2: you will probably wind up better off. In the meantime,
Speaker 2: This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making
Speaker 2: the most of our time.
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