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Read This Before Accepting Advice

Taking back control of your life.

Hiccupsandall
Curious
6 min readNov 14, 2020

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How many times have you heard the phrase, “If I were you, I wouldn’t…” How many times did you go along with it?

Many of us who are people pleasures seek the seal of approval on just about everything we do. This can range from picking an outfit for an event to life changing decisions.

As it could be guessed, relying on the approval of other people can easily hinder progress towards goals. Even from deciding what shirt to wear all the way to life changing decisions, like living in a van for a year, we are swayed by others.

Waiting on someone else’s judgement of the situation is simply distrusting our own intuition. All too quickly we stray from our paths, following someone else’s advice.

How terrifying is it to consider that with every word sent our way pushes us further away from where we are meant to be?

Here’s my guide to use your intuition to decide what is best for yourself.

If Roles Were Reversed…

This is a good rule of thumb to have.

We too often get distracted by whatever is going on to question the authenticity of the advice. Usually people mean the best, but they may have different perspectives than you on…

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