188. How To Be Awesome At Realizing You Can't Make A Person Change
How To Be Awesome At Everything
Lindsay Dickhout
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šļø 4 February 2022
ā±ļø 35 minutes
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Summary
You can't make somebody change. You can inspire them to change. You can educate them towards change. You can support them in their change.
But you can't make them change. Ā It's stepping on their toesĀ and can hurt your relationship more than help them. Ā Even if you have good intentions.
For a person to truly change, they must feel that the change is theirs, that they chose it, they control it. Otherwise, it loses all its effect.
1. Lead by example - show with your actions rather than advice.Ā
2. Ask questions, good ones!
3. Offer Help Unconditionally
You can't make somebody change. You can inspire them to change. You can educate them towards change. You can support them in their change.Ā
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| 0:00.0 | We've all had someone or several people in our lives that we think, my gosh, if they would just stop doing this or start doing that, it would all change for them. |
| 0:09.0 | That's what they need. |
| 0:10.3 | And then we try to change them. |
| 0:12.5 | We see it so clearly. |
| 0:14.5 | So often we do things like offer them unsolicited tips and advice or overly compliment them so they feel good or maybe you tough love them |
| 0:23.0 | and really tell them brutally honestly what you think is best for them the problem is even if you have |
| 0:29.4 | the very best intentions you can't make someone do something even if it's for their own good |
| 0:34.1 | because it requires intervening in their life in a way that often damages the |
| 0:38.6 | relationship more than it helps. We know that for a person to truly change, they must feel like |
| 0:44.2 | the change is theirs. They made the decision and they control it. That's the only way it works. |
| 0:50.1 | In this episode, we are talking about what you can do to inspire change instead of actively |
| 0:55.0 | trying to change someone. |
| 0:56.8 | Let's go. |
| 0:57.4 | You're listening to the How to Be Awesome at Everything podcast, where we're obsessed with |
| 1:02.7 | life hacks that make your life more awesome. |
| 1:05.8 | Your host, Lindsay Dick Hout, is an entrepreneur and business owner, a mom and wife, and someone who wants |
| 1:11.8 | to do things over the top at all times. |
| 1:14.6 | This concept started as a collection of things Lindsay has learned that she was documenting |
| 1:19.0 | to give to her kids one day. |
| 1:20.4 | And now it's a podcast. |
| 1:22.2 | Join us on this journey where we talk about how to be awesome at everything we do. |
| 1:26.9 | Here's Lindsay. Welcome back to the |
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