The Gift of Help: For yourself & each other
How do we encourage more of us to accept help when it’s offered, and ask for help when they need it?
As I deal with the challenge of living with a lymphoma and chemotherapy, I’ve encountered some life-changing lessons about the gift of help. The transformative realisation that accepting help is a gift since you give the chance for the help giver to experience joy, pride and/or the feel good factor of supporting someone they care about.
So I’m now on a mission to transform us all from a world of help rejectors to help receivers. So we can all revel in the Gift of Help.
This first season features conversations with people who share their inspiring health journey stories of how they’ve overcome cancer, concussion, ankle reconstructions, blindness. We discuss their raw and honest experience of asking for and accepting help and how this has changed and supported them. And then importantly we reveal some ways that they find useful to get over mental blocks to accept and ask for help.
The Gift of Help: For yourself & each other
Ep. 14: 6 Life-enhancing take-aways from meeting Simon Sinek
Recently I had the remarkable experience of meeting Simon Sinek, the renowned author, inspirational speaker and podcast host. It represented a wonderful reminder of you how when we dare to ask for help amazing things can happen.
In this episode I share how the experience has underlined and highlighted so many life enhancing themes I'm increasingly now living my life by, ones that will hopefully help and inspire you on your journey to live the life you want.
1. Manifesting: Things don’t just happen by chance, we can make them happen. Being clear as to what you want in life - both the feeling and the and that you feel it and deserve it, it will happen.
2. Meeting the universe half way: Be receptive to and recognise opportunities when they present themselves and why it happens in that moment and and in that way.
3. Journey not the destination: Liberating to let go of expecting or being driven by certain outcomes. To embrace each moment, encounter and opportunity that can then let the surprising magic happen.
4. Authenticity: being authentic enables game-changing things to happen. It creates stronger connections, a sense of trust that can only enrich your life
5. Gratitude: simple but important reminder that it boosts your own mindset and mood. For help when it’s offered, for opportunities the universe gives you, and for the people that in your life. And to be grateful for yourself, who you are, how you show up and what you give the world.
6. Purpose: Benefit of being able to capture your purpose, and then tap into and live and breathe it. With this Gift of Help project I feel like I’m doing so.
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