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The biggest mistake people make is that they go for the mix. A little bit of this and a little bit of that, put it together and you have a little bit of this or that. Too many people even in the self improvement or personal development arenas don't follow one discipline. Then they wonder why they didn't succeed at something.

Let me explain, in the personal development industry, they are many different disciplines to follow. It is relative to religions. Each religion has their rituals, rites and rules that people follow. The reason is because it is either a paradigm or some proven way to living your life.

People may ask well can you belong to two disciplines? The truth is yes and no. Let me illustrate, you take a course in meditation, now nothing is wrong with that for most major religions. Then here is what happens, that meditation that is taught to be done a certain way gets sideswiped by the beliefs of other discipline. If your mind is to be empty, yet your religious order infers that you must be thinking of their deity you will not master the meditation.

The purpose and intent of one does not align with the purpose and intent of the other. This applies to something as simple as goal setting. Some personal development coaches and mentors teach one way of setting goals, while another is showing you a different way. Pick the one that works and stick to that discipline, if that is what works well for you.

This also comes to the serving of too many masters. This person here is an expert on Goal Setting, another is expert at Visualization and another person is expert at finding life's purpose. Who do you follow? What makes sense?

This is how you get derailed. You start to follow and acquaint yourself to a particular mentor. Then something else happens and you choose someone to follow for some other purpose or reason. This is called lack of concentration. One is allowing the other to influence their judgment as to what their focus is. I talk from experience because I have experienced the same dilemma. Trying to pull bit and pieces from different viewpoints may cause so much confusion that you don't know what to do. This throws you off course.

There are many tools used in different ways. Each discipline has a set of tools. Master the use of those tools first before you go jumping into something else. If you can not visualize what it is that you want, how can you set a goal? You have no target to hit, since you have no vision of what you want.

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