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Working With the “Well-Meaning”
What do you do when the “well-meaning” friend or loved one offers “helpful” advice and commentary?
If you are working on creating a unique, non-standard life experience for yourself, it has all sorts of pitfalls, trials, challenges, and obstacles along the way.
When this is your why, and you are striving to consciously create reality by choosing your own path in life, it can and will impact those around you. Friends and family, coworkers, even acquaintances may offer support or resistance along the way.
Some of this is super helpful. Other aspects of this don’t serve you at all. Some of this is borne of jealousy, distress, and the fears of whoever resists your intentional change.
The most difficult to deal with, however, and the most infuriating, is the often passive-aggressive, well-meaning “advice” you’ll be offered.
Don’t know what that is? It looks a lot like this: You’re starting a restaurant? That’s great! You do know, of course, that the restaurant business is super-hard to get into, and most fail, right? — OR — I couldn’t quit my job and start my own business, especially in this economy. I hope your family is really ok with you doing this, and that you have a contingency plan? — OR — I don’t want to discourage you, but …and so on and so forth.
