The Villain Within
great your success habit, and plunge a dagger through the inner villain’s heart (not a fatal blow, perhaps, but one that does the villain some serious damage).
THE COST OF BAD ADVICE So what is the costliest advice in the entire world? Yes, of course: bad advice. Let me ask you this: Have you ever had an invention, a thought, an idea, or a creation that you thought could change the world and make you money? Then you told a family member, or a friend, or even a loved one, and they gave you every reason why they thought it wouldn’t work. Maybe they said things along the lines of, “Inventions take money and you don’t have enough. It’s probably been thought of already. You’ll have to get a patent and you don’t have time for that. Oh, you want to get it on TV? Well, it’s too much mon- ey to be on TV; it will never work.” And maybe their advice swayed you enough to make you ignore your idea. Then, some years later, you see your original concept changing the world and making someone else wealthy. Well, what robbed you of that experience? What robbed your life of that invention or op- portunity being yours and those experiences being yours? Noth- ing more than bad advice. You see, we so often get advice from our single friends telling us what to do about our relationships. We get pounded with advice from our broke friends on how we should make money. This is truly why bad advice is the most costly advice in the world—because we are learning from the wrong people. Would you learn how to sing opera from Jim- my Hendrix or how to throw a football from LeBron James? Of course not, because they are not the right people to listen to in those specific instances! At the end of the day, bad advice feeds that inner villain and just as troubling, encourages us to “play it safe.” By safe I mean it stops us from taking the actions and calculated risks that can help us evolve to the level of life we desire. And this
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