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There was a lad in my year at school.

We’ll call him REDACTED.

He was a bit of a wind up merchant, shall we say.

Liked to say things to people to get a reaction.

Or make things up about people “for fun”.

One day him and some of the lads were round at Burdo’s house at lunch.

Someone put on the Pamela Anderson – Tommy Lee video that was doing the rounds at the time.

REDACTED went to the toilet after.

And by the end of the school day a rumour had spread like wildfire about what he had done in there.

I remember him running out of school in tears.

And people saying “he can give it out, but he can’t take it”.

Not a nice story, of course.

But I definitely recall thinking “that’s the kind of stuff you do to others”.

The thing is though, most of us are better at giving it out than taking it, aren’t we?

Advice.

Judgement.

Help.

We’ll happily tell other people what they “should be doing”.

Or talk to those who agree with us about it.

Or think it in our heads.

But we don’t like it when others do the same to us.

We hate being judged.

But are quick to judge others.

And we’re happy to help other people.

But are terrible at asking for and / or accepting help ourselves.

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If anything, it’s this last one that we would benefit from challenging the most.

Being willing to receive a bit of help.

We’re often more willing to keep on failing in private than to reach out for help.

Every single call I do to get people set up with us ends like this:

“From my experience, the biggest difference maker between those that get amazing, life changing results and look back at this being one of the best things they’ve ever done…………. and those that………. don’t……….. is staying engaged.

“If, at any point, you’re not sure what to do……….. or you feel you’re doing what we recommend but it doesn’t seem to be working…….. or you’re just struggling……… it’s not always straight forward……… life gets in the way……… then let us know.

“Either drop us a message, ask in a Session or post in the Facebook group. We want you to have a great experience and get some amazing results and, if that isn’t quite happening, let us know.

“I always find that when people stay engaged………. sometimes it’s two steps forward, one step back…….. but that’s still forward progress over time………. It’s when people go all ‘head in the sand’ and non-responsive that it all falls apart”

Many of you will have heard me say that, pretty much word for word.

And everyone agrees.

Everyone promises they’ll do that.

100% of people say that they’ll seek help if they need it.

But not everyone does.

It can be a knock to our ego to ask for help.

We keep telling ourselves “I know what I need to do, I just need to do it”.

Like that worked for us before.

And, to be honest, it’s not like we even have to ask as such if we’re a member at RISE.

We just need to accept it when it’s offered.

We reach out to people regularly.

Sometimes they stop responding.

I can see the little ticks in the corner on WhatsApp and Facebook messenger messages.

They’re being read.

Then ignored.

Then, a number of weeks later, that person cancels their membership.

Giving some unavoidable circumstantial reason.

Which a click glance at their Facebook feed often suggests is, at most, only part of the situation (if at all).

We’re great at ‘giving out’ help.

We’re often terrible at taking it.

Swallowing our pride and asking asking for it when it would be beneficial (and / or accepting it when offered) is often the difference maker between finally getting those results we say are important to us………….

And not.

Much love,

Jon ‘My wife still laughs at the fact that me and most of my school friends still call each other by nicknames’ Hall

Jon Hall
Jon Hall

When not helping people to transform their lives and bodies, Jon can usually be found either playing with his kids or taxi-ing them around. If you'd like to find out more about what we do at RISE then enter your details in the box to the right or bottom of this page or at myrise.co.uk - this is the same way every single one of the hundreds who've described this as "one of the best decisions I've ever made" took their first step.