OK. Raise your hand if you have trouble asking for help. Come on, tell the truth. Put your hand up!!Often, we think we’ve got to do it all alone.  We have to prove how smart, strong, or good we are.  We think asking for help or support or even information makes us look weak and vulnerable and ‘less than’. Or we think that our asking will be an imposition. Well, not so. It takes a strong, confident person to reach out and ask for help. I’ve been surprised and delighted at how genuinely happy others are to step up and offer support. I’ve learned that a request for help is just an invitation. I’ve learned to ask in a way that lets the other person know it’s OK if the answer is no. I’m not attached to the person saying yes. In the past, I’ve mustered up my courage to make a request and then, when the person said yes, I felt guilty; like she didn’t really want to but felt she had to. Since I’ve learned to say no graciously, I’ve come to understand that when another says yes, it’s a choice he’s made to do so. How he deals with it later is not my business. He had the option to say no, or no not now, or I can’t do that but I can do this. There are many options when someone makes a request.

In good times and bad, we often want to stand by others and we often need someone to stand by us. It might be a crisis, the need for help on an initiative or information for a project or maybe to share our joy after a big win. Despite whatever physical distance there may be between us, we all need others.
This great video clip expresses it so well! Enjoy.