Comments on: If you don’t ask, you wont receive. http://skrapnel.com/2010/02/05/if-you-dont-ask-you-wont-receive/ Explosive Scraps and Thoughts by Chris Apollo Lynn Mon, 21 May 2012 14:11:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Chris Lynn http://skrapnel.com/2010/02/05/if-you-dont-ask-you-wont-receive/#comment-345 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:33:32 +0000 http://skrapnel.com/?p=701#comment-345 Hey Mary:

“to learn to be a thread in the tapestry of life.” Love it!

I feel like when we feel like people have effed us around, then we want to control the world and our surroundings. But it is really hard to play a good game of baseball when you are playing every position. For me to achieve my goals, I have to delegate some of the tasks to someone else–and I have to ask for help.

The first part of the post was about me finding people to help me do the things that I don’t know how to do or don’t have time to do.

So today I spent a good portion of the day emailing musicians who were nominated for our Austin Music Awards to try to see if they would play at your awards show. That’s the second part of this post. I was sooo scared to get turned down–I mean, who am I and what is Republic of Austin, right? Well, I got a few yeses–and it’s exciting. I feel good :)

MARY! I hope I get to see you during SXSW. <3

]]> By: Mary Wallace http://skrapnel.com/2010/02/05/if-you-dont-ask-you-wont-receive/#comment-344 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:17:57 +0000 http://skrapnel.com/?p=701#comment-344 I somehow got the idea I have to be uber-competent, maybe during my dysfunctional marriage and divorce, but I don’t know how to ask for help or advice and have been working on it too. I can actually do most things alone and I shoulder a lot of personal responsibility raising my kids by myself. But part of the life experience is to learn to be a thread in the tapestry of life, not the whole damn tapestry. So i’m working on it too, Chris and ITS TOUGH to pull down the defenses and actually need other people. I love doing things for other people and I know they love to do things for me, if I’ll just let them!

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