The Last Black Unicorn

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Jada:   “If you have    an  assistant,  then    they    can take    a   lot
of the worry and the stress oĉ you. Because the more
successful you get, the heavier the workload gets, and
the more normal things that you would do, you can’t
do anymore, because you got other things to deal
with. So give that responsibility to someone else.”

So I hired a dude to be my assistant.
My lawyer wrote up the NDA, got it signed. And this guy
worked for me for like a week. He was cool, very happy, and
nice.
I fired him right away.
I just didn’t feel comfortable with it. I don’t know why. I
feel like it’s me giving up my power, and I can’t give up my
power.
I worked so hard to be independent and to have things
for myself, and take care of myself. It’s hard for me to let
somebody else take care of me. Plus, I’ve been taking care of
myself for so long.
He didn’t do anything wrong. It’s just me. I got trust
issues.
One of my friends asked me why I felt this way. I think
about it all the time. Part of it is my childhood and what I’ve
been through. I could never really rely on anybody, I always
had to do things myself. It’s just hard changing those
thought patterns, you know?
And also, I have trust issues with people being in my
personal stuĉ. For example, I shop a lot online, I don’t want
nobody telling me, “Jeez, you’re buying a lot of stuĉ from

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