Rob’s nuggets of wisdom ￼

As WordPress continues to recycle old prompts, I pulled another prompt from The Coffee Monsterz Co to respond to today

What is a piece of advice you often give to others, but don’t practice yourself?

I think I’m pretty good at giving advice; and I like to think I’m pretty good at taking advice. Sometimes though, I’m not very good at taking my own advice.

I don’t know that I can think of one specific advice that I give people that I don’t follow myself, but to generalize: be bold, be confident, don’t worry about what other people think. These are usually the pieces of advice that I tend to give other people that I wish I would follow more often myself.

Be confident

Confidence will get you through so many things in life. I am a firm believer in the idea that, more often than that, if you go into something with a good attitude, good things will come from it.

Of course, one thing that breeds confidence is success. Sometimes in order to become more confident, you have to put yourself out there and give yourself an opportunity to succeed; which also means being willing to risk failure .

If you’re not confident, “fake it till you make it”. Just act like you’re confident until you actually become confident.

Fortune Favors the Bold

This may be perhaps my all-time favorite quote. It comes from The Iliad by Virgil. In fact, this is one of the handful of things that I have decided that were right to ever get a tattoo, this would be it.

Of course, it is a translation and we’ve heard many variations on this expression. But the fact remains that good things do happen when people take chances.

I look no further than my very own Detroit Lions. In American football, many teams will choose to either punt or attempt to kick a field goal when they reach fourth down. Lions’ head coach Dan Campbell has shown time again that he believes in his players and he will allow them to try to convert a fourth down into a first down. It seems like more often than that, the lions are able to do this.

Don’t worry about what other people think

So many times in my life, I’ve let my own insecurities. Keep me from trying to do the things I want to do. As a kid going through junior high, and then eventually high school, I was thought that people were looking at me. Every time I walked down the halls with my head down, I assumed that whenever I heard someone laughing, they were laughing at me. That is a horrible way to go through life.

And in a manner of speaking, that level of insecurity, almost borders on arrogance. It’s arrogant to think that that many people are that concerned with you and what you’re doing.

The truth is, unless you’re a celebrity, a famous athlete or politician, they’re probably aren’t that many people who are paying this much attention to you on a daily basis. Do what you want. Most people aren’t even going to notice anyway.

I actually like to think that I try to follow these pieces of advice, but I know that I don’t do it 100% of the time.

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