From The Daily Dialogue
From The Daily Dialogue
Broadcast of 9/29/98
Subject: [DailyDialogue #271] Asking for What We Want
"If you advance confidently in the direction of your own dreams and endeavor to live the life which you have imagined, you will meet with success unexpected in common hours."
-- Henry David Thoreau
Advancing in the direction of our dreams usually involves asking others for various forms of help.
We learn about asking from our early familial experiences and likely adopt much of what we learned to use in adulthood. In my family, I learned to be self-reliant and very slow to ask for help, even if I need help. I also learned that it's rude to interrupt people or to give my desires more urgency than others.
Paradoxically, being non-assertive about what I want makes it more difficult for my partner as well as for me. It's easier to help when she knows how to help, and frustrating to guess how to help.
Experiment: Ask your partner for something you've wanted but have not felt quite right about asking. Let go of any attachment to the outcome of your asking.
Affirmation: We are advancing in the direction of our imagination as we ask for what we want. The Daily Dialogue is published each day of 1998 by e-mail. Copyright 1998, Eddy Brame and Marty Crouch, All rights reserved.
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