Are You Getting Enough?

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How much Guidance do you need?

 It’s probably more than you think

I’ve been reading the book written by my friend Jim Fairbairn OBE – ‘Beyond Peak Performance’ (available from Amazon via the Freedom Academy). It’s been inspiring but at the same time somewhat ‘worrying’.

Jim is extraordinary but I won’t tell you the story. It’s in the book, only 100 or so pages so it won’t take up too much lifespan.

But this is the thing. As Jim explains you and I need guidance and without it we’ll get lost. Jim didn’t achieve all he’s done without guidance.

Without guidance people use up far too much life being ‘ordinary’, being ‘normal’, ‘getting by’, ‘going with the flow’, when there’s so much MORE!

So much more to be, do and have. It’s just most folks are completely unaware of their own potential.

You, I, and everyone else has the opportunity for an amazing, outstanding, awesome and wonderful experience on this planet but most just ‘throw it away’, often by feeling the need to ‘fit in’ rather than ‘stand out’.

Of course this is to an extent, sometimes a large extent, dictated or at least encouraged by a few people who seek to exploit others to enhance their personal egoistic experience.

Now, if you’re  already engaged with this perception of what’s going on in the world and, like Jim, already have it ‘under control’, you may know someone, you most likely do, who doesn’t ‘get it’- who doesn’t realise or understand what’s ‘going on’ and find themselves in a maze from which they are unable to escape, maybe trying this, that, and the other, to find a ‘way out’.

The thing about the maze is it becomes a ‘comfort zone’ and people begin after a while to feel ‘safer’ in the maze than they think they might be on the unknown ‘outside’.

They give up, assuming about their lives, ‘this is all there is’, not realising they just need a guide to get out of the maze.

As you know, I am a guide, and I have guides, and it frustrates me when people I know decide to do nothing about it, to ‘accept their lot’ or perhaps try something which seems like a good, or even obvious, idea at the time.

Jim and many others have discovered and proved the ‘tide turns’ when we ‘get help’.

For some reason many people (and it isn’t just men, it’s women as well) don’t like, or resist, asking for help, especially in the ‘British’ culture where we are supposed to ‘muddle through’, keep calm and carry on, or just put up with whatever our lives bring us.

It’s ‘just not British’ to ask for help but this is probably true in most other cultures.

Help and guidance isn’t about telling you what to do or how to do it, or ‘managing’ you in some way other than helping you be accountable to yourself, hand-holding when on uncertain ground, providing a ‘shoulder to cry on’ when things don’t go according to plan, encouraging, inspiring, helping you to ask yourself questions and generally just ‘being there’.

All the most successful people on the planet have had guidance of some sort from other people. But it isn’t ‘anyone’ who can provide this service and you’re likely to need a few guides as you progress.

Remember, you’ll not reach the top of your mountain without a guide.

Ask, and I’ll help you find the right one for you.

Ben Coker

Personal Freedom Facilitator