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Hello everyone welcome to another J another DailyJim it is friday May 6th, it is 11 50 at night and I'm tired. It's been a long week. Um I was just thinking about what to reflect on and it's been a long week, I'm excited for the weekend. Um obviously the american weekend, which historically is saturday and sunday. Um but yeah, I was just thinking about how yesterday I posted on facebook and opened up about my low financial situation and ask people for, financial help, which was so hard for me to do in one way because, I put so much pressure on myself to, that I should have been the one who is currently or who has made the most money because of my doing well in school and getting along with a lot of people and things like this. Um so anyways it was hard for me to put that out there, but after putting it out there I felt quite proud of just having the courage to put it out there. But then as if you listened yesterday, quite annoyed and frustrated with the facebook algorithm and, thinking, wow, it's been out there for maybe six hours and there's been a handful of responses not even knowing if people had seen it or not, but the update is that today.
People have seen it, you know, I don't know how many have read it and I don't know how many disliked it or felt angry or jealous or confused or whatever emotional reaction that people had, but. You know like I woke up to to receive money from some received money and words of support from people I've met Disports, you know, since 20 years ago when I was in high school. Yes, it's been 20 years goodness, almost 20 years. And people I met when I was living out in California, people I met when I was living in Tanzania in East Africa, people um that I met who are from europe and people kind of all across the U. S. And across europe and Africa, really reaching out and.
Supporting. And I think sometimes.
Sometimes I know that people support me and yeah, I think I can doubt it. And Mhm it still felt a bit, icky in some way to receive money from people like no, no, no, no, they, say, oh I can only give a little, I say, you know, it's fine and I'm thinking in my head that's fine because I really still don't want to receive like just give a little because if you give a little then I won't feel that guilty, but if you give a lot then maybe I'll feel really kind of guilty. Um but it, it.
One that helped me realize that and kind of how I asked to ask, I think for four people to help in four ways. One was if um people, I believe in the work that I'm doing and want to support financially to send some money to was if I have helped them in the past and they wanted to pay it forward to send some money. Three was if they wanted to sign up for a one on one class for emotional self defense or just like a leadership coaching class, to sign up for that and then send some money And then the 4th one was if they really just believed in me and even specifically, I didn't understand what the work I've been doing or even did not believe in it, actively did not believe in it to still send some money and support and it shocked me that it kind of got it across the spectrum.
And it just reminds me that, you know, it's there are some people who believe in me. There are some people, sorry, there are some people who sent money because they believe in me, or they believe in the work I'm doing or because the work has helped them, or because they currently want to get some more work. There are other people who have believed in me who don't send money and that's okay. Just reminding me that there are people out there who believe in me and reflect on this because I think so often when, we are working on endeavors or just in life in general, it's easy to forget that there are other people out there who are excited to hear from us, who are excited to, um to work with us, who are excited to try the things that we're building, who are excited to support. And often they often we don't let them support us. And so I'm grateful to the people who actively supported. I'm grateful to the people who passively supported. I'm even grateful to people who, may support me but not support what I'm working on and kind of push me in different ways because it helps me refine what it is that I believe and in the direction of which I go. So I just want to say thank you to all of you out there who are listening, for you for just listening and if you want go ahead and go ahead and send me some money, I kind of feel so weird to say that, but you know, I'm just, I'm just grateful that you're listening and that, you are on this journey with me alright, have a great weekend y'all and I'll catch you in a couple of days.
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