6 Reasons You Don’t Need to Know More
When it comes to self development advice, we’re bombarded.
This is especially true in January, when New Year’s Resolutions are still under pressure. This year, being a new decade has only heightened the pressure this time. And now, with a global pandemic and half the year ‘gone’, we are trying to pick up the pieces of how we can be our best selves, despite circumstances.
One self-help thread comments on the importance of setting actionable goals, of them being S.M.A.R.T. Another strand emphasises the role of visualisation and acting ‘as if.’ A third route professes the strength behind gratitude and just letting things naturally form in their own way: finding the opportunities and just saying Yes.
This leads us to overwhelm. To inconsistent action, if any. And to feelings of failure.
But one of the core misconceptions I have recurrently learned is that it’s often not a problem with knowing enough but on implementing that information.
One: Knowledge Alone is Not Enough.
We KNOW that to be healthy, we need to eat non-processed food and exercise regularly. Yet, how many of us manage this? Knowing isn’t the missing piece. It’s just the first step. The remaining steps? A motivating “why” and a…
