THE HARDEST PERSON TO PERSUADE

Last week I mentioned that I want you persuasive and ethically persuasive. As you enhance your skills of persuasion, you will be much more successful in getting clients, getting into organizations, and influencing the people that you need and want to influence. And that will open many doors of opportunity for you to make a difference for individuals, families, companies, etc. Here’s another aspect of you becoming more persuasive, namely, you influencing yourself.

Strange? Well, let’s explore this idea. How are you at persuading yourself? How are you at getting yourself to do and follow-through on what you want to do? Ah, yes, the old knowing–doing gap again! We know what to do to improve our health, our fitness, our business, our relationships, our finances, our wealth creation, and on and on and yet how many of us also have a challenge in actually doing what we know we should do?