Best advice you have ever received in your career?

The best advice I’ve received in my career is this:

Don’t take advice from anyone unless they have achieved the life you want to live.

If you ask 20 people “what should I do with my life”, you’ll get 20 different answers... the ONLY opinion you should take into consideration is the one given by the person who has a life like the one you want to be living.

If none of those 20 people are living your ideal life, find a different 20 people.

Seriously, this advice got me to stop taking career advice from my parents.

My parents aren’t entrepreneurs!

I can’t trust them when it comes to this stuff.

Same goes for coaches these days... Nowadays there’s a ton of coaches and consultants out there trying to get you to hire them for their advice.

The only one you should hire is someone who has the life you want to live.

Furthermore, make sure its someone you want to be like!

How do they treat their employees?

What is their relationship like with their spouse?

Do they have kids?

How much money are they taking home at the end of the year?

How do they spend their free time?

You will become more like the people you learn from.

If you are following the advice of someone to the letter, you will become more like them over time. Make sure it’s someone you actually want to emulate and not just a random person on the internet.

I realize the irony here to an extent ;)

However, I guess the advice I’m trying to give you here is “stop taking so many people’s advice”.

Even me! If you’re going to really take what I’m saying here and apply it to your life, send me a PM and make sure I’m someone you want to be like!

The only results I can help you achieve are the ones I’ve achieved for myself.

Everyone else is the same but they might not be transparent and let you in on that fact...