FINALLY: The secret to a fulfilling life. It's not only in real knowledge - instead of just thinking that you know. Neither is it just more money, nor even to have more time. Nor does it lie in having outstanding relationships - although all of these are indeed important.

A fulfilling life is deceptively simple: - achieve what you really want. Although you probably have many areas that need attention, this is a good place to start. Here's how to avoid the trap when your mind insists...

But I Do Know!

It was so funny, I recall laughing out loud when I realized how arrogant I had been as a teenager. There's an authentic message in that wonderful bumper sticker:


When I was young and immature, I thought that the logic of my thoughts was irresistible. Once I’d learned anything about a subject, no matter how little, I became rather opinionated in thinking I knew it all. Okay, okay, I admit it - I used to be very opinionated.

Everybody Thinks They Know

"All my mistakes have made me an expert in overcoming self-sabotage," I explained years later to my friend. "So I write about self-sabotage. Yet the problem is that people actively seeking to stop their self-sabotage seem to be rather limited. How do you find them?"

"So don't just write about self-sabotage, write about something else," urged Verne. "You can write articles about anything."

I had no immediate answer to this seemingly sensible advice, so said nothing. Verne thought he had made a valid suggestion, but had instead demonstrated a profound lack of wisdom.

Do I have experience in overcoming self-sabotage? Yes indeed, I’ve had lots of practice! But that doesn't mean I'm effective at everything else, or even at anything else. Yet when I was a teenager, I didn’t understand this perspective at all!

How Wise is Your Opinion?

Life Strategies’ clients achieve what they really want by overcoming self-sabotage and making less mistakes. The process works whether or not they are clear about what they really want.

The whole idea behind writing articles for the website is to become well-known in the self-sabotage field. Writing meaningful articles need you to be effective, which comes when you spend more time overcoming mistakes than most people. An expert shares wisdom from his context of experience - rather than passing on what he just understands.

As Mark Twain pithily explained:


Thinking “you know for sure” doesn’t mean you know! You don’t become an expert by writing about something. You get the necessary experience by doing it. Experience comes as you solve problems and overcome mistakes.

Overcoming Mistakes

Unless you've actually done it, you won't have made any mistakes. So you won't know how to overcome the problems that will inevitably occur.

One of the reasons people hire an expert is to avoid the costs and waste of time of making mistakes. As you gain experience of the problems that can arise, you become more effective and can pass on the benefits of your perspective.

Do you Really Know?

The world is full of people who have only their opinion, yet misunderstand the very real distinction between opinion and wisdom.

Here's one way to tell if you do really know. You do it as and when the time comes to do it. If you do it whenever appropriate, this shows that you know.

Despite your mind’s thoughts of denial, if you don't do it when you know that you should, then you do not really know. Your lack of action demonstrates that you don’t know, although you may understand it.

When you lack experience - even though your mind may insist "But I Do Know" - that lack confirms you don't really know. Without experience, how can you know how to overcome the inevitable challenges? That insistent thought itself is self-sabotage.

Once you really know that something doesn’t work, you change. You stop doing it because you know the cost of overcoming mistakes. At Life Strategies you learn to stop doing what you know doesn't work, which means you stop believing your mind's untruths!

Do you Believe your Thoughts?

It takes energy to research a subject carefully. Yet when your mind is quick, and understanding comes easily, you may think you know - and stop spending any more time. But are you willing to go past the point where you just understand and change to the context of wisdom?

Don't believe your thoughts, that's being gullible. Just because you have a thought doesn't mean it’s valid. Some thoughts are true, and yet many are not. You can find out which are which by exploring each one.

Then you will know which ones to pursue - and which to ignore. This involves learning not to delegate your thinking. Just as you don’t get fit by delegating your exercise!

My mother was very wise. When growing up, I don't know how often I heard:

The Dilemma

The tendency for the mind to tell you that you do know - even when you don’t - is very strong. Yet how can you really know when you lack experience? You won’t know how to overcome mistakes

When someone else has experience of something, it may even be true. But without your careful exploration, how will you ever know? Perhaps you're being manipulated, are you getting the whole truth? Are they following your agenda, or their own?

Many people take what seems to be the easier road. They settle for just believing others, without putting in the effort needed to come to their own truth. And then they try and lead others.

But Life Strategies doesn’t believe in believing, we believe in the wisdom of real knowledge. Which you gain with experience, by investing your own time and energy.

Knowing how to tell when you really do know will save you the costly consequence of many mistakes. Learning the crucial value of experience is an important step toward this. You need to understand these empowering distinctions.

Yet if this wasn't already abundantly clear to you, self-sabotage has obviously stopped you reaching this conclusion!

But I Know All This, some say

Are you one of the many who believe they know "All This", despite your current experience? But if what you know is not bringing you the results you want then how can you know? You cannot be doing what works.

Your experience tells you whether or not you really do know. No matter what you say, reality knows the truth!

Much of the human race lives in denial. And this doesn't mean on the river in Egypt! Our society says we want:

• to care for the Earth, yet we chop down her rain-forests and plunder her resources as unlimited
  
  
• a society free of rage and violence, then we entertain ourselves - and our children - with TV programs of graphic rage and violence
  

• our young ones to be responsible, yet our school "Zero-Tolerance" laws take that responsibility away by mandating totally disproportionate, often dysfunctional responses
  

• the truth, yet we follow Adolf Hitler's strategy of lying whenever we think it expedient. After all - doesn't The End Justify The Means? (What's your answer to this vital question? Mine is no - never!)
  

Do any of these strategies work to create the society we want? Aren't these mistakes obvious? Isn't there sufficient evidence of their inevitable consequences right in front of your eyes?

If you don't have the results you really want - which means you live a stress-free life while choosing how to spend your time as well as your money - then you cannot really know "All This." You’ll find your experience will change when you change your perspective.

If you're finding that any of this speaks to your heart, then you know that truth has its own beauty. The elegance of truth gladdens the heart. If you continue exploring these truths, they will bring amazing joy into your life.

The difference between just thinking you know, and real knowledge, is crucial. It makes a world of difference. What could have kept this realization from you? :-)

Stop your Self-Sabotage

Achieving what you really want means learning how to overcome your self-sabotage mechanism. Everyone has one, and it operates all the time.

The self-sabotage mechanism generally operates through context, rather than content. What's the difference?

• your context is where you come from when you do what you do
  
  
• your content is what you do, how you handle your affairs
  

So manage your context and stop your self-sabotage. Learn the wisdom of doing what works, and not doing what doesn't work. Achieve more while saving both time and energy with this ground-breaking, twenty-first century, Life Strategies e-book program and action plan.

Why Invest in Improving Your Capabilities?

An investment has a return, and your return in stopping your self-sabotage is enormous. There's no bigger return than in improving your capabilities, in becoming more effective. Life Strategies clients report becoming at least 20% more effective, and one client recently enjoyed an increase of ninety percent after just one year.

In the long run, your increase in effectiveness will increase your earnings by at least the same amount. And the increase is permanent. As Benjamin Franklin famously observed,


How much will a twenty percent increase in earnings amount to in dollars over the rest of your lifetime?

Work this out right now. Don't allow yourself to procrastinate - a very common self-sabotage strategy. Take all the time you need to answer this crucial question this very moment. The answer will change your life!

The result of your calculations will prove to you beyond doubt that your increase in earnings will pay for your investment in your further education many, many times over.

Yet, just like heat from a fire, results are never instantaneous. You first have to buy the logs, then you need to put some kindling in the stove before putting in the wood. Only then can you light and look after the fire, which after a delay will give you heat.

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