Help only those who will be helped

Are you imprisoned by your own desire to help others?

You only have a limited amount of time and energy with which to get your business up and running.

For some reason when you are trying to control your own destiny by setting up a company a lot of people look to you for help. This is mostly positive as through this you learn as much as you help others, and it often helps you out too.

However, there are limits.

Some people ask for help, but never put it into action. You can often tell these because they ask the same questions about the same problems again and again.

Some recognise they need to ask for help, but need help with everything, not just a few things. They appreciate the help you can give, but they have a long personal journey to go on if they really want to learn.

Sometimes your suppliers need help in order to meet deadlines for you to do your job. Often times this is simply because they don’t have enough experience to find solutions – they just see problems.

Sometimes your customers need help because they don’t even understand their own problems or what solutions there are. Educating them is important, but again sometimes people won’t be helped.

Helping others is good, but watch yourself. If it ends up taking too much time from your main business or you find it draining take a break.