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