510. The Art of Asking for Help & Getting Over Feeling Burdensome
The Chris Harder Show
Chris Harder
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In This Episode You Will Learn About:
- Getting comfortable asking for help
- When some asks require following up
- Developing your asking muscle
- Getting your elevator pitch down
- Asking for connections
- Building a network
Resources:
- Apply for one-on-one coaching at chrisharder.me/coaching.
Show Notes:
Why is it so hard to ask for help? This is a weakness for many people – and there's so many reasons why that may be. A major part is the fear of bugging people. There's a difference between knowing how to ask for help and making it feel burdensome. It requires approaching that ask with a certain energy. We're going to look at how you can do it without putting the pressure on.
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| 0:00.0 | Figure out exactly what the first thing that you need is |
| 0:03.4 | and what that one question is that doesn't require a follow-up question |
| 0:08.0 | in order for the person to help you. |
| 0:14.7 | Welcome everybody to the Chris Harder Show where we are making you |
| 0:17.6 | unapologetic about your pursuit of success. |
| 0:20.2 | Knowing that when good people like you make good money they can then do great things. |
| 0:24.6 | My name is Chris Harder and several times per week I will bring you epic guests, |
| 0:28.6 | solo episodes and every single tool trick and skills that you need |
| 0:32.0 | to grow your business, grow your money mindset, and to grow your wealth to levels that you have |
| 0:36.3 | never reached before. I've ended up in a unique place in life where I've got the experience, |
| 0:40.6 | the connections, and all of the secrets that it takes to be successful. |
| 0:44.4 | And I'm lifting the curtain to reveal it all to you in an effort to help put you in a position |
| 0:49.4 | of abundance so great that you can then be as generous as possible. |
| 0:54.0 | So let's lock arms and let's get started. |
| 0:58.7 | And we're back with another episode of He Said. |
| 1:01.9 | She said today it's going to be all about asking for help, asking for what you need. |
| 1:08.5 | Why is it so hard to ask for help? |
| 1:10.7 | I don't know. This has been a weakness of mine for ages. |
| 1:14.1 | Like I look at the years, like the decades where I didn't ask for help even though |
| 1:21.2 | clearly I needed it. And as I say that out loud I'm realizing one of the reasons why. |
| 1:26.4 | Not to get like right into it, but I just realized why it's getting into it. |
| 1:29.3 | It's because I felt like I didn't want to bug other people. It wasn't that I had any shame |
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