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The One Person Who Really Should Follow Your Advice
13 April 2017
We love to give advice. But rarely accept it. We expect the world to follow our advice. But rarely
listen to our own. Enjoy the benefit of your own wisdom by choosing to follow your own advice.
We love to dish-out advice.
To hear our own voice extolling pearls of wisdom from our
unique and clearly incontestable view of the situation.
But how often do we enjoy following the advice of others?
Not often. Why?
To give advice = status elevation.
To listen to advice = status threat.
But listening to advice is so much more than status threat.
It can be learning. And perspective. And inspiration. And
expansion of the thinking.
And ok: it can also be distraction. And interruption. And
too much input or information. But that’s a mostly
acceptable risk – and to the point, less likely the reason
we’d rather give advice than take it.
But on to the question I really want to pose:
How often do we follow our own advice?
Not often. And why is that? No status threat there. Isn’t it
because our internal naysayer voice is neutralising our
own advice with overcautious pessimism?
So, what would change for us, if we did follow our own
advice?
Good things. Things like …
DECISIONS. Acting on the decision we’ve already made
– but pretending we haven’t, as we search around for
reasons, or permission, or confidence or who knows what.
NETWORKING & COLLABORATION. Connecting with
new and inspiring people who energise and inspire us and
who we’d love to collaborate with – but we’ve decided
wouldn’t be interested in what we bring.
CHALLENGE & STRETCH. Taking that step out of a
comfort zone that we know we can and that will
massively move us forward – but that we’ve created an
unhelpful story around which has made us hesitate, ad
infinitum.
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT. Invest in ourselves and in
our impassioned projects – rather than let them sit,
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dormant, on the shelf, until who knows what special
alignment of the planets we’ve decided is crucially to the
timing.
CAREER. Going for the job we actually want and deserve
– rather than sticking with the one that’s beneath us, in
conflict with our values and is making us miserable.
We expect everyone around us to listen to and drink-in
our advice. And looking at the list above – why not! It’s
all great, empowering, reaffirming stuff.
So, perhaps it’s time we took our own advice?
Dan Beverly is a leadership and performance coach helping high-achieving,
high-performing professional women PIVOT into rapid career advancement.
His mission is to inspire possibility in others: to help us excel in careers without
compromise; and to leave us feeling energised and uplifted by a new future.
Go online to book your Discovery Call with Dan – and start capitalising on
your pivotal career moments today.
http://danbeverly.com/session-zero
