We often feel compelled to help everyone who seems interested in learning more, but we may end up spending time on people who don't plan to take action or can't do so at the moment. Why is it important that we separate the people who can take action from those who only take our advice? How can it impact our self-esteem? In this episode I talk about why it's important for us to focus on being impactful instead of just being helpful.
Stop being helpful and start being impactful. -Dana Malstaff
3 Things We Learned From This Episode
- As women, we are inclined to help and fix things, but some people are not in the mental state or position to take action based on what they learn from us.
- We might want to help everyone, but we have to make a distinction between the people who can take what we give them and put it into action versus those who won't. This is the difference between helpful and impactful.
- We have to focus on the people who are in the right place. This is our audience: the people who will actually put everything into action and change their lives.
We need to start recognizing who we can really have an impact on. It's hard to be productive and passionate about what you are doing when the people you are helping don't see any results. It can lower our self-esteem and lead us to question our value.
Instead, we should focus on the people who we can make an impact on; the people who will make us proud by taking action.