Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

I have another fable for you today, my friends, and I have to say I love the old language, which, with which these were written two and a half thousand years ago was that we no longer use.

It's kind of part of the charm, if you ask me.

This is the fable called Hercules and the Wagoner.

Okay, stick with me.

I'm going to break this down.

A Carter was driving a wagon along a country lane when the wheels sank down deep into a rut.

The rustic driver, stupefied in aghast, stood looking at the wagon and did nothing but utter loud cries to Hercules to come and help him.

Hercules, it is said, appeared and thus addressed him. Put your shoulders to the wheels, my man. Go to head and never more pray to me for help

until you have done your best to help yourself or depend upon it or depend upon it you will

henceforth pray in vain what does this mean essentially this man carting a wagon along a country lane

his wheels get stuck he prays to a God,

the God appears, and says to him, get to walk.

Don't pray for me until you've done everything that you can.

Otherwise, you pray in vain. What is the moral here, my friends,

my gosh, this is basically self-coaching society in a nutshell. Self-help is the best help.

Self-help is the best help. Think about it. If you know how to coach yourself in any situation, any situation at all,

you always have your coach with you. You don't have to call anyone. You don't have to text anyone.

You don't have to book any sessions. You don't have to open a book. You need nothing apart from

your own brain. So how often do we do this? We hit a roadblock, something doesn't go our

way and we're like, we need help. We start reaching out to people. We start asking others to help us.

And look, that's a strength, asking for help. But in this fable, the man who's pushing this car along, he prays to God saying, help me, help me.

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