Interpersonal

How to better your ask to get more helpful responses

Do you ever struggle getting help or even more, simply getting a response sometimes? I have lost way too much sleep boiling over the lack of response to an ask with all kinds of crazy thoughts racing through my head. Sometimes it starts with, “don’t these people check their email” and quickly spirals into suspicion, conspiracy theory, and beyond. What I have learned in the last twenty years is that the problem isn’t usually them… very often it has been me.