Friday, January 16, 2026

Advice Giving

 I don’t bother telling people what they should do.  It is only my opinion.  So I simply tell them what I did and how it worked.  For instance, if I think someone would benefit from more exercise I don’t tell them that.  I tell them of my condition before I began to exercise, what program of exercise I did, and what happened.  I try to become an example.  I tell them of days I did not want to exercise and how I found some force or power to get me to say yes instead of no.  If I think someone would benefit from a conversion experience, I tell them mine and let that be it.  If I have no experience with something then where is my “opinion” coming from.  It’s like one drunk telling another at the bar late into the night that they should stop drinking.  

2 comments:

  1. reflective listening until they disclose their reason for resistance is also powerful.

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