Everyone has the potential to offer Advice.
It’s possible that advice will be beneficial to you.
The skill as we wind our way through life is to be cognisant of whether that advice is useful or will be useful to us!
We can use a couple of filters to help to recognise if the advice will be helpful.
1. Is this person doing what you want to do. Will their advice help get you to where you want to be?
2. Is the advice giver being over cautious? Are they close to you and although care for you, are they wanting you to stay small and not expose yourself to discomfort, hardship or challenge?
Advice can be seductive and safe.
Just follow the advice and you’ll see results. And to a certain extent this is true. But true in that you have to DO SOMETHING.
Action is the key starting point. Action coupled with reviewing what your action produces.
Being aware of the outcomes of your effort will help gauge if you are building the life you planned. *
Your awareness of how the actioned advice is working for you is more important than the advice you receive.
Ultimately you decide what you do.
It may not seem like that at times, but the earlier you can take steps to making the right decisions the quicker you are on the path to your Happy, Healthy and Confident Life.
*Planning your future will be a later post…
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Navigate your own path… 