Shape Your Success

There is a paradox in asking for help. It appears to be a sign of weakness and surrender, when, in truth, it is a sign of strength.

Not asking for help only means you have a bigger commitment to your story than you do to your success. Maybe your story says you don’t need help. Your story says you can do this on your own.

But what if you were committed instead to success? What if you had no interest in building a heroic story and your sole focus was on achieving great things? Then you’d get help. Because the commitment would be to the result instead of how you appear to others.

I like this quote:

“We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.”  – Pema Chodron