Who are you trying to fix?

Your spouse? Your employee? Your business partner? Your child? Someone on your leadership team?

What if the help you've been asking for has already arrived, but you haven't fully received it?

There are moments in life when we finally recognize that something isn't working.

The problem is bigger than we thought.

The burden is heavier than we anticipated.

The decision is more complicated.

The relationship needs attention.

The responsibility has exceeded our present capacity.

Recognizing that we need help is an important first step. Asking for help requires another level of humility and courage.

What opportunity, resource, relationship, or breakthrough might be on the other side of simply asking?

Last week, we explored an important leadership principle: recognizing when you need help.

But recognition is only the beginning.

You can know you need help and still refuse to ask for it.

You can recognize that you don't have the answer and continue struggling alone.

You can even pray for help while resisting the very people God may be positioning around you to provide it.

At some point, recognizing the need for help requires us to do something that can be surprisingly difficult:

Ask.

What if one of the strongest things you could do as a leader is recognize that you need help?

Leaders are accustomed to being the people others depend on.

We solve problems.

We make decisions.

We carry responsibility.

We help other people navigate difficult seasons.

But when you've spent much of your life being strong for others, it can become surprisingly difficult to recognize when something has become too heavy for you to carry alone…

There are seasons in leadership when everything looks fine from the outside.

You're still showing up. Still making decisions. Still carrying responsibility.

But internally, you're struggling…