Help ♪ I need somebody…something, some way out of here.

Is, can you help me, the hardest question to ask?

Is this another reason to believe that The Beatles were divinely inspired because their first movie was called HELP?

One way I write Curing Seriousitis™ is to use the alphabet, searching out meaning, and words with a charge. My criteria are what motivates me toward a word like G for gumption, or words I move away from, like H for help. “I mean I don’t need any HELP; I can do it myself.” There is a charge in asking for help, so H is in my New ABC’s.

I have some counterproductive beliefs around asking for help. Beliefs I don’t want my grandchildren to catch. If they do maybe they will catch them and use the opportunity, as my wise fisherman son practices, to HELP with “Catch and Release.”

Here are my questionable beliefs about HELP:

The ego believes it has to be right, so there is no space to ask for HELP.

Only weaklings ask for HELP. The Fonz or John Wayne never asked for HELP.

If you ask someone for HELP you have to listen and do what they tell you. I don’t want anyone to tell me what to do!

If I ask for HELP, then people will know I am not invincible.

HELP is humbling, a more graceful H word. I could have chosen humbling to let me off this helpless treadmill and not explore my own helpless beliefs.

Think of all the excuses and blame I’d have to give up if I asked for HELP.

Being an adult, especially an elder, means never having to ask for HELP.

That’s a bunch of indoctrinated self-defeating beliefs that keeps my attention stuck, outcomes limited, leaving me to continue to create from trial and error. Lots of errors or worse, lots of giving up, and not getting what I want.

I want your HELP. Business is going well. It’s important to know I have time for you, your friends, and family members, to HELP those with public speaking fear, handle their fear. To HELP create entertaining content, connect with their audience creating clients and sales.

For the grandchildren of the world, learn and remember to ask for HELP. It is as easy as pushing the F1 key on a PC. You deserve to ask and be helped.