sequence practice
Asking for What I Need
Before you begin
Bring your most pressing practical need. This practice ends in one concrete act of asking.
The practice, step by step — read it all first if you like
Name it plainly
State the need in one sentence without apology or decoration.
Release the shame
Say: need is not failure; asking is not weakness. Notice any resistance to that.
Map the help
List the help within reach: people, services, options dismissed out of pride.
Ask
Make one actual request today — a call, a message, an application. Small and real beats grand and postponed.
Accessibility
The 'ask' step can be adapted to whatever communication is easiest for you.
How long do you have?
Or read through it quietly above, at your own pace.