Don't we all..... need Help?

Most of the times, a majority of us feel that we don't need help as we are very successful professionally, personally. Success doesn't mean that we don't ned help, we probably live in an illusionary world of Achievement which blinds us from seeking or asking for help.

Coaching and Mentoring are the two forms of help one can seek if they are not sure what help they need. During the process, one can discover what real help one needs.

I was going through this wonderful fable, which would put all our perspectives and assumptions into disarray.

I was parked in front of the mall wiping off my car. I had just come from the car wash and was waiting for my wife to get out of the mall. Coming my way from across the parking lot was what society would consider a tramp.

From the looks of him, he had no car, no home, no clean clothes, and no money. There are times when you feel generous but there are other times that you just don't want to be bothered.

This was one of those "don't want to be bothered times". "I hope he doesn't ask me for any money," I thought. He didn't. He came and sat on the curb in front of the bus stop but he didn't look like he could have enough money to even ride the bus.

After a few minutes, he spoke.

"That's a very pretty car," he said.

He was ragged but he had an air of dignity around him.

I said, "thanks," and continued wiping off my car.

He sat there quietly as I worked. The expected plea for money never came.

As the silence between us widened something inside said, "ask him if he needs any help." 

"Do you need any help?" I asked.

He answered in three simple but profound words that I shall never forget.

We often look for wisdom in great men and women.

We expect it from those of higher learning and accomplishments.

I expected nothing but an outstretched grimy hand.

He spoke the three words that shook me.

Don't we all?" he said.

"Don't we all?" he said.

I was feeling high and mighty, successful and important, above a tramp in the street, until those three words hit me like a twelve gauge shotgun.

Don't we all?

I needed help.

Maybe not for bus fare or a place to sleep, but I needed help.

Those three little words still ring true.

No matter how much you have, no matter how much you have accomplished, you need help too.

No matter how little you have, no matter how loaded you are with problems, even without money or a place to sleep, you can give help.

Even if it's just a compliment, you can give that.

You never know when you may see someone that appears to have it all.

 They are waiting on you to give them what they don't have - *A different perspective on life, *A glimpse at something beautiful, *A respite from daily chaos, that only you through a torn world can see.

Maybe the man was just a homeless stranger wandering the streets.

Maybe he was more than that.

Maybe he was sent by a power that is great and wise, to minister to a soul too comfortable in themselves.

Maybe God looked down, called an Angel, dressed him like a tramp, then said, "go minister to that man cleaning the car, that man needs help."

DON'T WE ALL?

# Coaching # Mentoring # Thinking # Leadership # Management # Assumptions