Habits

Many people have allowed themselves to be sucked into these types of scams. We believe what we want to believe and our beliefs are based on our life’s experiences. Beliefs aren’t real until we make them real for us.

Our opinions eventually become our beliefs. This matters, because our beliefs shape our whole life. If we never give a second thought to where our opinions come from, we’re missing out on a way to reach our goals.

It’s amazing how much advice is out there. Even when you don’t ask for it.
Going through a life changing experience can bring us closer, but inflicting others with our perspective on that experience can drive us further apart. Or at the very least, drive our friends around the bend.

So here are my tips on how to give advice, and how to stop giving advice. Please.

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One of my favourite quotes reminds me that “if you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” It is time for me to heed that lesson and expand my own horizons by exploring new, diverse and exciting methods of reaching out to all of you and, hopefully, many others.

We don’t give up on our dreams, hopes, goals and aspirations because we’re tired, or because it’s hard, because it’s taking too long, or because it hurts. No! We give up on our dreams, hopes goals and aspirations because we simply don’t want them badly enough, strongly enough or desperate enough.

In more than 25 years of working with hundreds of coaching clients, I have heard every imaginable reason for not doing the things they have acknowledged will lead them to achieving their goals and have committed to do. Countless clients have told me they will do “whatever it takes” to reach their goals only to hear them, several days or weeks later, explain why they didn’t or couldn’t.

It was June 1976. I was living in Cape Town, South Africa and the country was in the grip of the deadliest race riots in its history.

Experts have long stated that the only known way of changing human behavior is to change the consequences that follow said behavior.