Get wise before you get old.

You might be pretty smart, but are you wise? 

A smart person knows facts, and a wise person knows truths. 

A smart person can find a solution to a problem. 

A wise person avoids the problem altogether.

They say that wisdom comes with age, but who wants to wait that long?

It would be better to become wise as soon as possible. While experience matters, there are other ways to boost your wisdom to King Solomon levels.

Over the next 3 weeks, I’ll give you some strategies to start becoming wiser today:

1. Read books. Books are perhaps the best way to gain wisdom quickly and at a young age. Smart people like to write books. Not-so-smart people like to write books, too. So, be picky about the books you choose.

• ​​These smart people condense the information they think is most important into a few hundred pages that you can learn in a week or two. It took the author a lifetime to learn these things, and you can access it all in less than a month. What a deal!

Some examples from my life are:

• “Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me & Cheryl to the Mall: A Parent's Guide to the New Teenager”, by Anthony E. Wolf - This book revolutionized who I was as the parent of a teenager.  It taught me how to be with my daughter in such a way that I could set limits but never drive a wedge between us.

• “Dying to Be Me” by Anita Moorjani - This is a book about a woman’s near death experience that gave me a new sense of freedom about death.

• “The Body Keeps the Score'' by Bessel Van Der Kolk - I am about to read this book and looking forward to learning how my body holds trauma and how to release that trauma.

You might think, I’ve read that before or I already know that or that won’t make a difference. 
 
You may tell yourself that you do not have time to read, but you do. A trick I use is to divide the number of pages in a book by the number of days I want to read it and surprisingly you can read a 500 page book by reading 16 pages a day.  Anyone can do that!

2. Find a mentor. A mentor is an expert in an area of interest to you. A mentor can help you with your relationships, fitness, career, or any other specialized facet of life. The right mentor has a lot to share and can greatly add to your wisdom.
Some examples from my life are:

• When I was struggling as a teacher in my 20’s, I met a woman who taught me how to set up and run a successful program with teens and I received a written commendation from my school.

• When I was in my 30’s and needed to learn to speak confidently in front of an audience, I hired a successful speaker who taught me everything she knew and I became one of the most effective speakers my company ever had.

• When I opened my own business in my 40’s, I hired a successful coach who helped me generate 25 clients in my first year. You might think, I can’t afford a mentor or I can figure it out on my own or that won’t make a difference.

Using a coach, mentor or trainer is one of the fastest ways to gain wisdom now.  It will be well worth your investment.  You are worth it.

Older people know a lot. But you also frequently hear them say, “I wish I had known this when I was younger.”

Luckily, you can learn a lot of things while you’re still young enough to benefit from them. You can start becoming wiser today. You don’t have to spend a lifetime making mistakes to become a wise person.

If you’d like to learn from the wisdom of others, join a SAGE SUPPORT GROUP TODAY.   

Each week the members of the group support, encourage and teach one another.  

You get to try it for a month FREE and then decide if it could work for you.

Contact me at patti@sagethink.com to join a group now.
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Learn from your experiences and the experiences of others. Read good books. Get a mentor. A little work now can pay off for the rest of your life.