Is it easier for you to help other people succeed (or feel better, or be comfortable) than it is to help yourself with the exact same thing? If so, why do you think that is?
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Thursday, March 29, 2007
Helping others?
Posted by Shirley Twofeathers at 8:55 AM
Labels: helping others, self improvement, why
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Yes, it is always easier for me to help other people than it is for me to help myself. I have no idea why that is...
I am currently helping an artist friend of mine sell her art on eBay, she has sold 5 or 6 paintings so far... It's been easy and fun to do. Not hard at all.
I have a closet full of art that I could be putting up for sale on eBay or eCrater or Craig's List... but just thinking of doing that fills me with an extreme tiredness.
If only I could pay myself to come over to my house once a week and get that stuff sold. Wouldn't that be fun? Maybe if I was 2 people instead of 1 person, I could be more helpful to myself! I could get more done too.. I could work 2 jobs.. make twice as much money... I would always have someone to talk to.. and go to the movies with..
Probably we would just fight all the time... I wonder what it would be like ... I wonder if we would like each other...
It is definitely easier for me to help others succeed, also. I have even found that if I have a question and I pretend to ask it to myself (as someone else - not me), I can often come up with the answer! Shirley, you and I are SO ALIKE! BTW, in answer to your question about working on the book project together, the answer is yes! Maybe we can find a way to help each other and in the end, help ourselves!
It is definetly easier for me to help others than to help myself. I think it has something to do with being outside of the picture. With a friend or loved on, sometimes even a stranger, we are able to see
more clearly where to help and what needs to be done. Maybe part of this is just control issues, but I really think it is love. We want our friends and loved ones to succeed so we are thinking in a success filled way for them, we see them more objectively than we see ourselves. I know I am always second, third and fourth guessing for myself about myself so I get to bogged down in that to move forward. Where as a friend can see me clearly. They can, not they always do, tell you more things about yourself and what is the direction you should be going in than you could probably tell yourself in weeks. Plus it is ingrained in most of us to help others first, that it is better to give than to receive etc....
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