Why is our own advice is always the hardest for us to take?

because it's easier to be brutally honest with other people than be honest with ourselves.

and as benjamin disraeli said, it's easier to be critical than correct.

Good question, I believe we don't always acknowledge ourselves when it comes to helping others. In other words we give advice to other people, hoping to help them and even change their lives for the better, however deep down inside we believe that we cannot always acknowledge ourselves the same way we do to others. It's a difficult topic to comprehend, and I'm always seeking answers to my own life. There are times when I feel low and in the grunt and for some reason I come on here ( Yahoo Answers) and give out exceptional advice to people, from what I hear people love my advice and think I'm good at giving advice, however for some strange reason I'm not always capable of taking my own advice to heart. I don't know why, but I don't feel the same way while I'm giving advice to others as opposed to me receiving the advice and changing my life for the better, positive....

Anyways all that being said, I understand exactly where you're coming from and I guess it's just one of those mysteries of the universe....

Regards

Jordan Pickell

PS : My colleagues informed me that some unknown individuals entered Canada illegally during this past summer. Unfortunately they weren't able to get a positive ID on the individuals....lol

Tell me what we're you up to during this past summer ?

:P

Because we are human. For Jesus, was it easy for him to stay strong, to suffer as he did? It did not come easy but he knew what he wanted and he did not allow anything to make him lose his focus on it.

He also said for us to pick up the torture stake if we were to follow him. So our own advice to others is out of genuine compassion in return we must look to our own life in such a caring way. He came to take our sin away even the indecision's of our heart he will cleanse. So keep up the faith and hang on for the ride.

And know through him those who prove loyal and repentant to the highest degree of our own individual reasoning capabilities will be saved.

What we want is not always best for us, these God knows. So don't be so hard on yourself.

From my experience the reason why is because we know what needs to be done to change for the better in our life's, but we are not ready to make that change because we are unsure if it will really benefit us. We know that our advice could help someone else we give it to, but we are still afraid of what our advice will do to us if we follow it.

Our advice to others is to be truthful and strive for what will truly make them happy(sums up most advice), yet when you have tried for such and fail, where do you have left to go? It is hard to contemplate that kind of failure. We all know what we need, what we want and what we need to do to get it. It's easy to say these things, much harder to live with the reality of possible failure. In a lot of ways its easier to settle for less then what we need then it is to try and not succeed.

For me.... I must aknowledge that as benevolent and constructive advice, that I think I choose to give to 'others' in all honesty it would be best and more applicable to my life situation first... but even confessing this to you today...I will most likely try to vicariously live my potential through helping that of 'other' then myself... I say this not to be noble... but as a confession that I too must and could use constructive change in my life.

Because it's us! We not playing mediator or devil's advocate. We are ourselves and there's emotion and pain involved mostly likely. And the truth hurts sometimes. But I think the key is to treat ourselves kindly and talk to ourselves as IF we're talking to our own kids or our own best friend.

Tough one. Maybe because we know it, we came up with it. When we really think about it, everybody's a hypocrite. But I guess it's mainly because, since we thought of it, we know the loopholes. Or maybe we feel superior because we thought of it, so subconciously we think we don't have to follow it. reverse psycology sort of thing.

When one feels that, it's because one is trying to overcome an

irrational impulse.

We all have them, and learning what they are, when they'll show up,

and how to deal with them, is a major part of growing up.

Most people don't trust in themselves. Most people need a second opinion to feel secure.