The Benefits of Surrounding Yourself with Helpful People
Humans love to help other humans when they need it. However, we often have trouble asking for help from the people around us when we need it.
Having people who can help you when you struggle is immensely important. None of us are completely alone. When you have a team of helpful people around you, your potential is endless.
Here are four reasons to surround yourself with helpful people:
1) You can learn from them
None of us know everything. There are things that we haven’t experienced that the people around us have. We can learn from their experiences without having to go through them ourselves.
When you surround yourself with helpful people, you open yourself up to learning from them. If you’re trying to lose weight, talking to someone who has done that can be enormously beneficial.
Similarly, you can help them with things you have gone through. Collaboration is the best way to fix a problem a lot of the time.
Be open to learning from people, don’t be stubborn. It is hard sometimes but opening yourself up to help is the best way to grow. Vulnerability is not a bad thing.
2) Teamwork is fun
Being with supportive, helpful, and driven people is fun because of the success it brings. When you have multiple similar minds working together to achieve a common goal, you find new possibilities and new solutions that you may have never thought of.
Going through struggles and challenges alone is difficult. Why not bring people along with you on your journey? You can learn from each other and get better together.
Boring moments, like meal prepping and long cardio workouts, can be made more fun with buddies. When you go through adversity together, it becomes less of a struggle.
3) Competition can be a good thing
Friendly competition is another reason teamwork can be fun. It allows you to challenge yourself and the team to get better. Nobody wants to fall behind the group.
Having common goals, such as races, fitness challenges, and other things motivates the group to be at their best all the time.
Your journey is personal, so you shouldn’t compare yourself to others too much. However, using competition as fuel is a great way to light a fire under you, especially when you feel yourself falling behind.
4) Teamwork brings accountability
You will want to be a good example to others on your team. You will want to be a leader who gets the group moving. That holds everybody, including you, accountable.
At the same time, you will often feel like you don’t have the motivation to keep moving. That’s when having a good team comes in. You will need a boost from people from time to time.
When the rest of your team succeeds, use that as fuel to keep moving and growing as a unit. When they succeed, you succeed. When you succeed, they succeed.
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