granting favors – client k

Ask For One Favor At A Time

A loved one
called today
to ask for favors.
Favors.
Multiple favors.
Six to be exact.

And they weren’t easy favors
to grant.
Each one will take
at least a couple hours
to tackle.

She thought she was being efficient
by saving up the favors
and asking for them
all at once.

Nope.
She was greatly diminishing
the odds ANY of them
will be fulfilled.

I would have put aside time
to do one of the favors.

I don’t have 12 plus hours
to do things for her.

And when I heard her list,
I felt…
taken advantage of,
used,
like an unpaid unappreciated
employee.

It wasn’t a nice feeling.

Ask for one favor
at a time.

When we run our own businesses
and can work hours
we decide to work,
people WILL take advantage
of that.

They will ask us
to pick up their kids
after school
or drive them to appointments
or do little tasks
that on their own
seem like nothing.

But multiplied
by everyone we know
and asked every day
suck all our time.

I help one person a day.

Many days, that’s it.
I don’t help more people
than that.

And some busy days,
I help by donating supplies
or cash
or helping to promote a promotion.

I tell the asker
of the favor
I can’t help
that I have to help someone else
that day.

Help people
but also protect your time.