Counseling helps you serve others by living a life of balance, integrity, and constant growth, counseling helps you guard against self-deception. Five steps that you have to adopt and apply if you're going to maximize counseling:

1.     Buy in a wholeheartedly ·      You have to believe this is a worthwhile endeavor  ·      Your outcome will rarely exceed your outlook Why you should seek out counsel: 1.    People depend on you.  2.    It feels better when you pay someone to listen.  3.    You are capable of being an idiot.  4.    View counseling as a deposit for an impending crisis. 

2.    Find the right person  ·      Shared source of truth  ·      Willingness to sit in awkwardness ·      You can trust them 

3.    Have guts to be transparent  ·      Being transparent helps you live a life of balance, integrity, and constant growth ·      Growth and comfort do not coexist  ·      What’s the most uncomfortable thing?

4.     Play the role of narrator  ·      It's not helpful if it stays in your head/heart ·      Five core emotions: Anger, Sadness, Gladness, Fear, Shame

5.     Reflect, prepare, and commit  ·      Reflect: Take 10 minutes to reflect and write down, then share with 1 person  ·      Prepare: Most people don’t get what they want because they haven’t identified it ·      Commit: “Commitment is when you fall in love with something so much, that you put structure around it for the times when you no longer feel in love with it.” -David Brooks 

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