Finding a Good Guide

June 18, 2024

Message/Experiment of the Week:

Have you ever gone to a new place and hired a guide to show you all the amazing things there? Choosing a good guide can result in amazing experiences, and choosing a bad guide can result in horrible experiences. Often in life, we let our circumstances and those around us define our limits, and we don’t go outside of our comfort zone to explore all the amazing things around us. However, a good guide can help you explore beyond your comfort zone safely, and help you achieve things and have amazing experiences you didn’t even know existed.

Good guides can help you do almost anything faster. The videos below talk about Wildly Important Goals, and a good guide can help you achieve your wildly important goals faster. They will often know the path with the fewest steps to get you where you want to go because they have explored all the other paths and know the best way to go. They will also help you keep moving forward when you may want to quit or give up before you reach your destination and let you know about the risks and challenges you will likely face along the way and how to best navigate them.

If you can find a good guide, they are often worth their weight in gold because they can open up whole new worlds of possibilities for you that you never knew existed. However, you need to watch out for bad guides who will promise you the world, but don’t know the best way to go and want to charge you money to go exploring together, or worse they just want to get your money and run. So, make sure you choose guides in your life who have proven results of helping others get where they want to go with the fewest steps possible.

Here are a few books you may want to check-out from great guides:

For an experiment this week think of an area in your life where a guide would be really helpful (taxes, money, starting a business (the SBA has great free guides and resources), relationships, writing a book, learning an instrument, health, travel, etc.), and then reach out to a few guides and see if any of them seem like a good fit to help you get where you want to go faster.

Quotes of the Week:

  • “To achieve goals you’ve never achieved before you need to start doing things you’ve never done before.”
    — Stephen Covey

  • “Courage isn’t absent of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important.”
    — Stephen Covey

  • “Be a light not a judge. Be a model not a choice. Be part of the solution not part of the problem.”
    — Stephen Covey

  • “In the space between stimulus (what happens) and how we respond, lies our freedom to choose. Ultimately, this power to choose is what defines us as human beings. We may have limited choices, but we can always choose. We can choose our thoughts, emotions, moods, our words, our actions; we can choose our values and live by principles. It is the choice of acting or being acted upon.”
    — Stephen Covey

  • “Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people’s lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.”
    — Stephen Covey

Videos of the Week:

The 4 Disciplines of Execution

Chris McChesney at Global Leadership Summit

Song of the Week:

Shakira - Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)

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