Getting Help Isn't A Luxury

Here’s a lesson that I’ve personally experienced and seen to be true for other people. We assume that the people who get the most help, who lead teams and have a big support staff, were able to afford that kind of help after they became financially successful. We also think that being able to afford resources compounds growth and offers an unfair advantage that makes the rich richer.

But what I’ve found to be true is that the people who run big businesses and live a big life… They invested in help before they could reasonably afford it and that’s what catapulted them to the next level. 

We have the order backwards: You get help first and then that facilitates your success. You don’t get successful by waiting to get help. Getting help isn’t a luxury for the rich, it’s a strategy for increasing your capacity.

When you have help you’re no longer limited by the confines of yourself. Someone who has better ideas can help you operate with more leverage. Someone who has a different skill set can take work off of your plate. More of your vision can materialize into reality when there are more people actively working on building it. With help, your personal efforts multiply and your work gets done by others.

The challenge is taking the leap and going for it. It’s scary to invest in yourself for the first time. It feels irresponsible to spend money on something with faith that it will free you up to do more valuable things. That’s what I experienced, joining Masterminds, hiring coaches, and building my team. I am freed up to do higher leverage and higher value things.

And here’s the tough love and hard truth of it: You will keep falling behind where you could be. Now that I’ve gotten help, I wish I would’ve done it sooner. Things would’ve happened so much faster. I can’t change the past but I can use the lesson to inform my future. That’s the lesson I’m passing forward to you so that you start making the progress you know you’re capable of.

If you know you want to play a bigger game but things seem to just stay stuck, in your health or career, I’d love to help. Here’s where to get started.

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