The more people around the world are helping me, the more I can be helping people around the world.
I want to help people around the world and I’m finally realizing that to keep doing so, I need people around the world to help me.
And while I love to offer and give help, asking for help and receiving it can scare the hell out of me. Why? Because, as I talked about on the DailyJim, sometimes we feel harmed by many aspects of the helping process.
But for me, this is the essence of the work I’m trying to do: train myself and others how to deal with emotional combat…and not just in the classroom, but by publicly demonstrating these skills. I want the world to learn these skills and most people won’t sign up for a class or see a therapist. I want to meet people where they are, whether that’s a bar, a car, a dinner table, a workplace, a podcast player, a social media platform, or a remote village in Uganda.
I’d feel very grateful if you read below to learn how I’ve helped people around the world, how people around the world have helped me, and how you might be able to help me to help even more.
How I’ve helped people around the world
How people around the world have helped me
How you can help me
I would feel very grateful if you helped me with any of the following things—with #1 being the type of things that would help me the most—so that I can help even more people:
1. Unknown & hard to get by myself
Something I don’t know that I want but I actually want and it’s hard for me to obtain it by myself.
Past examples:
- A warm introduction to an innovation consulting firm that I didn’t know existed and that led to me getting hired by them
- A story about how a conversation with this person over 20 years ago helped them deeply reflect on their social anxiety
- An offer to stay at a friend’s place when they knew I was in a low spot emotionally and financially and soon would have to move out of the apartment
- An offer to use my friend’s car when I was visiting their location
- A delicious meal and cocktails over an evening of conversation with an old college friend
- A beautiful handmade leather wallet
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IG2. Known & hard to get by myself
Something I know that I want but it’s hard for me to obtain it by myself.
Current examples:
- Stories, via video, voice, or text, about how you have been impacted by things, such as:
- informal interactions with me
- my podcast episodes
- ESD workshops
- It’s Up to Me or other Erasmus+ trainings
- emōkō online drills
- iFeelio
- my travels
- etc
- Things with which you think I might be able to help you or someone in your life, such as:
- A current conflict that you, your group, they, or their group is experiencing, whether in a romantic, professional, family, or other sense
- An introduction to someone that may really help you or this person
- Specific emotional skills that you, a group of yours, they, or a group of theirs might want to learn
- Training in how to deal with specific types of emotional attacks, like rejection, guilt tripping, being ignored, complimented, etc.
- etc
- Warm introductions to someone (which may be you) that you think might
- enjoy being a guest on my podcast
- enjoy me being a guest on their podcast
- really appreciate engaging with my work
- be excited for me to speak or run a workshop at their organization/community
- want to build apps with me
- work in journalism and be interested in learning about/sharing some of my thoughts
- Help in developing different things that I’m giving such as
- ways to make the jimkleiber.com website or Jim & Friends forum more user friendly
- ideas on how to develop a community around the Jim & Friends forum
- ways to do podcast video creation in a very low-maintenance way while on the go, from lighting to background to recording, etc.
3. Known for another person & hard to get by myself
Something I know that another person wants but it’s hard for me to obtain it by myself.
Current examples:
- A job as a cabin crew in an airline out of Kenya for a friend who already has a cabin crew diploma from Kenya Aeronautical School and a IATA certificate
- A sales or maybe digital job for a friend who is way too smart, educated, and charismatic to be working as a night-shift security guard
- Fashion marketing/PR person who wants to work with a niche luxury leather goods brand
- Sales channels in the US or customers to buy the homemade shea butter beauty products made by two Kenyan friends
*Hellō is a universal login platform that will create an account on jimkleiber.com and the Jim Kleiber & Friends forum or log you in if you already have one
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Paypal
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