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How To Facilitate True Change In Others: 3 Tips To Getting Others To Transform
No matter how much we want to, we can never change others attitudes towards life.
Be it their political views, religious views, or life views.
Be it their self-improvement, their addictions or habits.
Be it the way they love, laugh or live.
We cannot force anything to change with anyone but ourselves.
But we can act as guiding lights that create alternatives.
We can live by example as we show those around us that there is a different way one could lead life, and we can try our best to give those around us options, but we cannot force them.
Trust me, if forcing worked I’d force each of my clients to do everything they said they would do, but I do not hold that power, and neither do you.
That being said, if you truly care about the person and want something within them to change then you have to look at a few things.
- Lead By Example — We generally find it hard to take advice from hypocrites or those that are not there yet. That being said, if you can live your life that way first and show them the results, that will carry far more weight than empty words, no matter how well they mean.
