You're Trying too Hard to Fix Your Life: Just do This
There are people spending years on self-help with no real progress in life (you are really starting to worry me).
I was one of them, but since I was blogging about it, I tricked myself into thinking that it was okay, that I was the reasonable exception.
In a way it was a waste of time because I wasn't making real progress in my own life. But that changed once I started to do one trick...
Tell people what is on your mind.
Don't live in your own little bubble. Even if it is a self-help bubble.
Here is the thing, you don't have to read 100 blogs with 10,000-word posts to find the answer to your current situation, it can probably be told to you in one sentence.
And I'm not talking about some generic advice like, "Just take action." I'm …show more content…
Once you tell someone what is going on in your mind, the conversation will naturally go to what you can do about it.
You just need to start a dialogue with someone to help you realize your options and to motivate you into taking action.
(Straight up asking people what you should do in this situation can work, but it usually doesn't give the best results as it puts them on the spot. Just how a great artist comes up with their best ideas when they are relaxed, people will give you their best ideas when you are in casual conversation.)
What it really comes down to is this principle: organic decision making.
Once you open up to someone about what is on your mind, the conversation will organically shift into the decision making procress.
(Sorry about not telling you this aspect of organic decision making sooner, but I just figured it out myself.)
Don't live your life in a mental prison of your own thoughts.
Don't live your life in your own little bubble.
You are a very, very smart person, but you just need some help (we all do) in sorting out your thoughts and your life.
Go take that first tiny step towards your
There are people spending years on self-help with no real progress in life (you are really starting to worry me).
I was one of them, but since I was blogging about it, I tricked myself into thinking that it was okay, that I was the reasonable exception.
In a way it was a waste of time because I wasn't making real progress in my own life. But that changed once I started to do one trick...
Tell people what is on your mind.
Don't live in your own little bubble. Even if it is a self-help bubble.
Here is the thing, you don't have to read 100 blogs with 10,000-word posts to find the answer to your current situation, it can probably be told to you in one sentence.
And I'm not talking about some generic advice like, "Just take action." I'm …show more content…
Once you tell someone what is going on in your mind, the conversation will naturally go to what you can do about it.
You just need to start a dialogue with someone to help you realize your options and to motivate you into taking action.
(Straight up asking people what you should do in this situation can work, but it usually doesn't give the best results as it puts them on the spot. Just how a great artist comes up with their best ideas when they are relaxed, people will give you their best ideas when you are in casual conversation.)
What it really comes down to is this principle: organic decision making.
Once you open up to someone about what is on your mind, the conversation will organically shift into the decision making procress.
(Sorry about not telling you this aspect of organic decision making sooner, but I just figured it out myself.)
Don't live your life in a mental prison of your own thoughts.
Don't live your life in your own little bubble.
You are a very, very smart person, but you just need some help (we all do) in sorting out your thoughts and your life.
Go take that first tiny step towards your