Ten yrs ago I posted about picking my brain and here’s an updated version because more and more are trying and enough is enough!
IF you trust someone enough to constantly call or text asking them for their advice/guidance then hire them instead of the inept person you hired who will make money off of you and literally not take care of you or your needs/concerns.
You are basically attempting to use someone else’s knowledge, expertise and time for your personal gain at no expense to you while paying someone who isn’t doing their job.
That’s not right.
If you have qualms, reservations about the person/business you’re using then don’t use them.
It’s a very simple concept.
Pay the person you’re looking to for guidance, service, information!
It’s one thing to ask a friend for advice but there’s also a fine line that so many aren’t grasping that while friendship is great, your friend could also be making money and providing you the service you desire instead of giving up their time to assist you while actually losing money helping you and not attending to other business.
It’s like asking the mechanic friend what’s wrong with your car then taking it somewhere else to get fixed.
It’s like asking the trainer friend for what work outs you should do then going to someone else to get in shape.
It’s like asking your handyman friend how to do something/fix something then paying someone else to do the actual work.
Not right!
It’s one thing if you’re asking friend to friend for yourself but when you’re taking that persons info and then paying someone else, that’s just wrong.
And even more wrong is when random total strangers request to pick my brain for free and I don’t have any type of relation/connection to them.
Pay for my services!
People, myself included, are nice until given a reason not to be and we all have a line that you shouldn’t cross…
If you take advantage of people, their kindness, their willingness, eventually it does come back to bite you…
Remember that as you pay for the service/product from someone you honestly didn’t trust and yet felt obligated to use be it because of family or false loyalty or just clueless, confused, lost or whatever and yet turned to the one you truly trusted in your gut for advice but messed over.