Where across the course of your day today, could you consider where it might be, that the best advice you are giving is advice you should be taking for yourself?
Across the course of this past weekend, I found myself having a de ja vu epiphany of my own in offering advice and in recognising that the advice I needed was for myself.
My brother Kevin used to say that his favourite dinner party conversation starter was “What’s the best advice you give that you are not taking yourself?”
I had a client let me know he was in town over the weekend, and we organised a catch-up. Over the course of this catch-up, he expressed what he felt was ingratitude from his partner for all the things he feels he does for her that lighten her load.
I started to think about where I might feel unappreciated, in order to empathise with my client.
One example that came to mind was when I ran around and did a lot of things for a friend returning from a trip, in preparation for their arrival. In agreeing to pick them up from the airport, I had somehow got my timings so wrong that they had rung to ask me where I was, as I was getting in my car to leave, expecting I would arrive half an hour early for their arrival.
Later that day, as I pointed out all that I had done, my friend let me know that they hadn’t relied upon me doing those things…
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