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1. How can I help the poor women in Kenya?
2. What was that book that made Joanne cry?
3. Using the 48 Days job search, how many times should I call before it becomes “problematic?”
4. Did the homeschooling benefits outweigh the costs with your kids?
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Quotation –
“Fear is wetting your pants and just standing there. Courage is taking the next step with wet pants.” Dan Sullivan
Great answers today Dan!
Kimanzi – thanks so much. I always enjoy plowing through the amazing questions.
How can I get this podcast to work? I have been trying for a long time but everytime I click on it, it just keeps saying “buffering.”
If it’s buffering the connection has been made properly and it’s just trying to load on your computer. Check your connection speed to see if for some reason it’s too slow.
Thanks Dan!! I wish more people would choose to homeschool – you mention that you’re a bit out of the loop on the resources, I’d be happy to help listeners in that area. I’m always ready to help answer questions for people just getting started and offer support when it’s needed.
http://www.learningtangent.com
Gail,
Thanks so much. I clicked through to your magazine and browsed around. Very nice. Yes, I’d be happy to pass along anything you can give me as resources.
Sure thing! I’ll get my lists together – probably tonight or tomorrow.
Dan- thank you SO much for the answer you gave to my question. It was really the sort of thing I was hoping for. I can’t wait to dig into all of the excellent resources you provided. Many thanks, Gretchen
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Gretchen,
You are most welcome. I was concerned you might not be thrilled about the direction I took with that. I’m excited about the ways we can “help” responsibly.
Dan- I WAS thrilled with the direction you took with that because that is where my hesitation was coming from. If I can ever be of help to you in any way, please don’t hesitate to ask. I’m a successful serial entrepreneur, now “retired” and itching to get back into something.
Dan as usual another outstanding program. Thanks for all that you do.
You truly are a winner in life an amazing man thanks for making it magic.
I listened to this one on the way back home to Ohio yesterday. Wow Dan. Amazing insight on the stages of helping people. Are we hurting or are we helping. Already sharing this concept with my tribe. Thanks!
Kary – thanks for your comments. This is something I’m constantly studying – trying to learn for myself and help others with a workable plan.
Great podcast and theme with it. I just downloaded and read that book “Stop Helping Us: A Call to Compassionately Move Beyond Charity” and WOW! I totally love it. And it was totally on time, because just earlier today I had a guy hit me up that he and his wife was homeless but they were clubbing and he had a cell phone bill. What I generally told him was,
“Offer
yourself and people will give you opportunities to help others so that
you can help yourself. If you have the holy Spirit, which I know you do,
then you need to believe that God has called you to be the blessing of
Abraham to bless the nations. You are to lend and not borrow. You are
to offer yourself, not beg for help. You can get help when you offer
help much faster then holding your hands out. The mindset of people
nowadays is that when they give to beggars is that they are EMPOWERING
YOU to stay a beggar. And it’s easy to fall into that trap of ‘the world
owes me and needs to help me’ then it is to be responsible for your
situation and then getting up and making a plan to do something about
it.
It’s always better to teach others to catch fish for themselves then it
is to catch fish for them. One makes you independent and useful so that you can
contribute to others and the other makes you dependent and a burden to
others even when they want to help.
God’s got you, there is nothing impossible to him who believes!”
Basically before all this I suggested that he go to the local churches and instead of ask for help, offer himself to the church or to ask the pastor or another church leader if their was work anywhere in that church or if their were any members who owned businesses that can use him. Then I told him to to list his spiritual gifts, his passions, his abilities, his personality, and what kind of experience he has to show what he could do so the pastor would have an idea of who to refer him to. I also suggested that he asked the pastor for any ideas on a place to stay near by that would have him until he got on his feet. And if that church could not help him to ask if there would be another place that can. And then I told him to wash, rinse, and repeat at every ‘no’ you get until you get a ‘yes.’ I told them it would be a hard challenge, but it would be easier to stay where he was at and complain about it. I’m hoping to hear back with from him with some kind of result. If I don’t then I am assuming taking responsibility for where he is at is too high a price.
Ricardo – thanks so much for sharing that real story. It’s quite challenging to “help” without crippling the helpee.
Exactly!