While working with more than 300 individuals personally in the last decade the most important thing I would like to point out (if you are thinking of hiring someone to help you with any area of your life) is this: It’s important to be aware of your qualities (projections and expectations) you bring to anything you do.
Let’s say for instance you decide you want to improve your lifestyle or change it in the physical, mental and nutritional areas. You begin searching for the person who will be able to help you on this path. You somehow decide to hire a trainer or a coach. If you hire an unknowledgeable and inexperienced person it doesn’t matter anyway, but if you hire a great coach and in your mind reduce him to a mere person who is showing some physical exercises in the right order or with the right technique that is the value you are going to get.
It’s not that he cannot help or teach you anything more it’s that because of your close-mindedness you are not allowing him to. The funny thing is that then some people complain what has been shown doesn’t help them or they thought the results will be better. Why is that I wonder?
If you want to be a seeker, be a true seeker. Which means surrender, go all the way and then see what you got out of this. If you seek change but are not willing to change or only willing to half change, then you are a picker, not a seeker. “I want this but I don’t want that.” “I like that but I don’t like this.” Out of such a fragmented and scattered state of mind, nothing you ever do will be able to improve you.
