There are times when you just have to ask for what you want and trust that you will receive a response.
This is a good test for this holiday season. We are in the home stretch. Christmas is on Wednesday and the New Year the next week. But this is the time of year when people have expectations or miscommunications can arise. You may expect someone to take care of the last-minute Christmas shopping or pick something up at the grocery store and they don’t.
My case is a little different. I have been working a part-time job while I build my business. The hair salon that I work at is closed a couple of the shifts that I typically work this Christmas week. Just because they are closed doesn’t mean that my bills change. So, one of my co-workers had an emergency arise this past week and I had the opportunity for two additional shifts. In total the extra shifts amount to the same number of hours, plus a couple, that I lose the week of Christmas. I said I needed help, but I had to trust that it would happen, and it did.
Trusting that our needs will be taken care of isn’t always easy. I want things to happen in a specific way. I want to do it myself, but that isn’t always possible. It isn’t entirely up to me. There are forces out there greater than me, but I had to ask. Just thinking it wasn’t enough in this case. I had to ask for help out loud. It wasn’t directed to anyone. It was like a prayer.
Asking for help isn’t easy. It’s a lesson that I have had to practice a lot recently. It’s not a lesson that I’m particularly fond of or comfortable with, but it’s an important one.
As we head into Christmas and the new year, we can speak our truth and state what we need. Practice this skill. It doesn’t come easily. Nothing that is worth having ever does, but it’s worth it in the end.
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