This week’s Quote for Stress: “Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you’re waking up to instant stress. You shouldn’t be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it’s time to start your day”. Sharon Gold
Category: Work
We need each other!
This week’s QUOTE FOR STRESS
“Everything depends on you and at the same time you cannot reach the final goal by yourself.” Author Unknown
So many people prefer to do a task on their own without any outside help. ‘Nobody can do it as well as I can’, ‘better to do it myself, then at least I know it’s done properly.’ Aren’t these such common refrains especially from a perfectionist?
We start off life as babies, being totally dependent on others – we can’t walk, we can’t talk, we can only cry to get our needs met. As we grow up that changes. We want to do things on our own. We want to master the skills of living and we strive for independence, which is good. However, the next phase is interdependence, which is even better! This is the stage of accepting that we all need each other because we all have different skills and talents to get a task done. We’re all a ‘link in the chain’, so to speak! Trying to do everything totally on your own just leads to burn out!
We might have a goal in mind, but to reach that successfully, we need to allow some fellow life travelers to help us along the way! To acknowledge that we do need others is also a wonderful way of showing love to others, and meeting another person’s ‘need to be needed.’.