When you look back at your life, you’ll realize that all of your best education, the best advice that you took, the best changes that you’ve ever made, came from modelling other people. In particular, they came from witnessing other people do something a certain way, or live by a certain code, that you were inspired by and then you adopting it yourself.

And yet, when it comes to helping other people, you probably try to intervene directly: you try to stick your hands into their life and change how things are going; you try to tell them what to do; you try to help them out physically. So, if, in your own life, the role modelling is what was the most helpful, then why aren’t you focusing on doing that for other people? Especially if you want to help others?

The very best thing you can do to help other people is to show them how it’s done.

Don’t even try to make them do it.

Don’t try to convince them.

Just do it yourself in front of them, and know that’s probably the most helpful thing that you could possibly do.