Don’t be afraid to ask for help!

Have you heard the phrase, “No man is an island”? It means that, as humans, we don’t do very well on our own, we need community around us to thrive. Just look at Robinson Crusoe, where would he have been without Man Friday, eh?

Even though this is a well known and accepted phrase, many of us still find it hard to reach out and ask for help from our family, friends and the community around us. We plod on trying to work things out for ourselves, taking time and sometimes not succeeding.

It’s a mindset issue. From our early days at school, it was trained into us that we needed to produce our own work without talking to, or copying from, our best friend sitting at the desk next to us. We had to pass or fail on our own merits.

And as we got older, we tended to view asking for help as a sign of weakness or failure. We started comparing ourselves to others and thinking, if ‘they’ can do it why can’t I? I can’t let people know that I can’t do it by asking for help, what would ‘they’ think of me?

But asking for help is really a sign of maturity and intelligence. It means that we have recognised that we can’t be expected to know and do everything. Other people can do some things better than us and we can actually do somethings better than them!! 

We very much adopt this attitude here at the Interior Designers Hub. We recognise the benefits of working together as a community:

1. Knowledge & Skills Sharing 

Our community allows you to fill gaps in your knowledge by learning or outsourcing to others in the group, e.g. if your CAD skills are lacking, then we have others who are willing to help point you in the right direction or to do it for you if that’s your preference. 

2. Making connections

As well as widening your business network, you can also widen your personal network, making lasting friendships with like-minded people who, unlike your partner, are thoroughly excited to chat about F&Bs latest colour collection or the optimal length of curtains.

3. Inspiration

We have members and students from all backgrounds, ages and all over the country, with a few from overseas too. They bring with them a diversity of ideas, knowledge and opinions which you can tap into to help spark your creativity.

4. Support

Probably the biggest and most valued benefit, there is always someone willing to help. Everyone in the Hub knows what you are going through as they have been there themselves. You can bounce ideas off everyone and get honest, constructive feedback. We promote a caring and positive environment. Many describe it as their ‘Hub family’

So, there you have it, asking for help is not a sign of weakness, in fact it’s quite the opposite. If you don’t ask for help, you can be missing out on so much learning and progress.

People naturally want to help others. If you think about it, don’t you get a lovely, warm feeling when you help someone? It makes you feel good about yourself, doesn’t it? So, do you really want to deprive someone of that same feeling by not giving them the opportunity to help you?

If you would like to find out more about our Interior Designers Hub community, you can join our free Facebook group HERE or take a look at our membership, Hub Insiders, HERE.