Who’s Relying on Me Today

An awesome thought if you think about it. And awesome can be defined two ways — put you in awe or be a substantial undertaking (formal) or the (informal) describing something extraordinary.

Think about who and why a responsibility or commitment for something in someone else’s life has been put in your hand today.

Does this invigorate you? Inspire you? Make you want to go back to bed-hide in your “cave” (garage, basement, office, or maybe you have a literal cave)?

Do you run from it or towards it (fight or flight). Maybe both at the same time? Meaning you want to help and take some steps, but are so befuddled you take tepid or no action in time for anyone’s benefit, even your own.

Either way it’s a response that may not help matters.

Do you just meditate on everything and hope some answer falls out of the sky and hits you in the head with cosmic thunder?

Why is it coming to you in the first place? What have you done to earn this gift (or horror depending on how extreme an issue it is that someone brought to you).

Likely the answer is one or both; trust by that other person, or display of some skill or aptitude they think you possess.

Why do you owe it to them to help?

What do you owe to them?

When do you it owe to them?

These three questions may help you sort the issue. They may be well founded to rely on you. Or you help them better sending them elsewhere.

Some of us always run to help. Others never. And of course it could be a bit of both.

If your default response is one of these first two though, you may get results and a reputation you don’t want.

It’s worth asking those 3 questions above each time.

But don’t labor too long. You have a line forming.