Doesn’t have to be a life motto. Any motto, for any application.

Mine is: “Fear is shorter than regret.”

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    23 days ago

    I know a few people like this, too. But by rule my experience is the opposite of yours: people asking me help once will likely do it again and again, unless I impose a limit.

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        23 days ago

        Ehm, yea?

        Yeah. I am highlighting that your personal experience in this regard is different from mine and vice versa.

        And why is that a problem? Some people need help occasionally

        This is a problem because, as I already said: when you give them a hand they want the arm.

        In other words, they start expecting you to spend more and more of your time, labour, brainpower and/or resources, solving their problems, to their benefit, with no regards of that becoming or not a detriment for you.

        It’s specially egregious in cases where the person doesn’t need the help, that they’re asking for help just because it’s nice to have it.

        That’s why, as I also said, it’s important to impose some limits here and there. Plenty people do not know how to impose those limits, and as a result they are taken advantage of.

        Is this clear now?