Personal Development Tips from Paulo Coelho

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28 years ago (as of this writing), I doubt Paulo Coelho predicted social movements like Facebook, Twitter, and so many others, but he knew a lot about personal development.

Yet in The Alchemist, 25th Anniversary: A Fable About Following Your Dream, he says “Everyone seems to have a clear idea on how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”

POWERFUL.

Because there’s no shortage of us posting, sharing, and commenting about how other’s lives should be.

Yet our own lives are not as optimal as we can make it.

Because we avoid any change that has an unproven outcome…

We ignore the voice of our soul…

Even though every day we're fighting an internal battle between our heart and our head.

We’re never satisfied – always complaining – clearly “seeing” how others can improve THEIR lives…

We’ll share a motivational quote – a video.

We’ll tell the world how they should follow the advice.

Yet we IGNORE our own advice for personal development.

We “knight” ourselves as coaches, mentors, and consultants of SOME degree (yes – present company included) yet we rarely INVEST the time or money INTO ourselves, so we CAN help the others we tell about our “coaching”.

And I’m not pointing any fingers here – BUT – as anyone will tell you who knows me – I DO INVEST time, money, effort into myself…

LOTS of it.

But I digress – this is NOT a mini “coaching commercial”.

I just believe that if we are going to input into others' lives, we better damn well be doing something for ourselves…mistakes included.

The Personal Development Part Jumped Off The Page

When I read that quote in the book – I knew immediately what this post was going to be about.

Because our world has become the playground for all of us to peek into others' lives, and push our own lives further into the shadows…

The increase in “reality” TV shows are proof of that.

We can’t get enough of how “others” live their lives – and we focus on how “they” should fix it. All-day at the water coolers, on the patios, and over texts.

Shouldn’t we work on our own personal development first?

LOOK INSIDE.

The answers are there.

You know if you’re ignoring the questions and answers.

You know how many excuses you tell yourself every day.

You know how many times you “escape” to the world of social media to “share” the good word, but you’re only avoiding it yourself.

Like I said – NO ONE is perfect … we all have flaws –

But if we’re going to suggest how others should lead their own lives, let’s make sure we’re doing that for ourselves first.

Peace out.

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