The Reins

So yesterday I said a strange prayer. (If I had an audience I'm sure half of them just tuned out. lol)
I normally pray for wisdom to know what to do and what I'm doing wrong and then the strength to be able to do it or stop it. But this time, I prayed for help. More specificly, I asked that the hearts of my co-workers (in the broadest sense of the word) would be softened. I asked that they be given clever ideas and the motivation and skill to carry them out well.

I can't do everything myself and all my effort goes to waste if the people I'm working with don't help me. If they don't prepare and don't care then it really doesn't matter how much energy I exert. Also, I've found that I have not been blessed with the skill to motivate others. I can ask nicely, pester, command, or beg and still I get nothing. I'm not the kind of person that people think about going out of their way to please. I thought for a moment it might be because I always seem to know the right answer and have everything in hand. Or that people don't want to do things because they might screw up my "perfect ideals". But even when I plead for help and show how vulnerable I am, I still get little to no more responce than if I had said nothing at all.

I don't know what the solution is. I do know that I'll never accomplish anything great by myself. Empires are built by the hands of many. And where do you find people as motivated as you? How do you make people who are not natutally loyal and hard working, be so?

I'm tired of being diappointed.