Advice – How Much Is It Really Worth?
What You’re About To Learn: Why asking for advice from “anyone” is not as helpful as you may think…
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When I was first looking to start a business I remember all the negativity. I was only 19 and everyone told me I couldn’t do it, not possible, I had no experience, no money, blah blah blah.
Needless to say, I was pretty deflated.
It was then that I heard someone say “take the advice of those who are where you want to be…not anyone and everyone who decides to offer it.”
Here’s what I mean…
Let’s say you want to learn how to fly, would you ask someone who has never flown to teach you?
NO!
Then why do you run around asking people for advice who are obviously not fit to provide it.
Before you ask anyone for advice, ask yourself – is this person where I want to be in my life? For example, is this person a pilot?
If the answer is no, keep your mouth shut and move on to someone else more qualified to give advice on that topic.
The more I live my life, I’m finding that “advice” is pretty useless most of the time. Those who are truly qualified to give advice (true mentors) are usually smart enough to only GUIDE you and never tell you what to do. My first warning sign now for bad advice is when someone tells me what to do rather than just try to guide me (even if they are or have been where I want to go).
** Please don’t get me wrong, if it was not for good advice, I would not be who I am today. But for every piece of GOOD advice I get, I usually end up also getting 10 pieces of useless advice. You need to learn to hear through the noise…
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