Inspirational advice coming from unsuccessful people

I read a story somewhere not long ago about how unsuccessful people are the most likely to be attempting to dish out advice to others and it sat there in the back of my mind until I started to notice it in my own FB feed.

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We all have them in our feeds: Those people who feel it is their duty to inspire the world with some insight into well-being or some semi-patronizing advice about how you "should be" living your life. I normally don't pay them much mind and some of these clowns who are probably just bored with their real life even fancy themselves to be "life coaches" and yes, that is a real profession that people pay money for.

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When I was reading this article about how "people who post inspirational quotes tend to be idiots" I didn't think much of it but then one day after a barrage from a few people in my feed who are constantly giving life advice to all of their friends on social media it occurred to me that these people haven't actually accomplished much in their lives at all.

Here is a list of their qualifications:

1. one girl travels the world as a street performer doing fire shows and body-painting exhibitions. Most of these performances are completely illegal in that she doesn't have a work permit (that is an entirely different matter that I don't care to get into.) She is able to pull this off because she is quite hot.

2. a yoga-instructor with very few customers who is married to a rather rich entrepreneur. She never has to worry about making any actual money and perhaps this plays a very big part in her "keys to happiness."

3. a person who runs a charity that is operating under the auspices of being for the welfare of orphans, but in the meantime if it were to be exposed how little of the money actually goes towards the kids in question, she might be a bit of trouble.

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I'd be interested to know if you have any people in your own feeds who are the same way but here is something that I think is kind of a universal truth:

This advice rarely comes from the mouth of people that are actually successful

I'm not gonna rain on their parades because I actually kind of feel bad for them. I think that maybe there is a chance they are actually quite close to depression or perhaps already in it and by offering "advice" to other people they are able to keep this "demon" at bay. It is very easy for me to look at my dog, exhale deeply, roll my eyes a bit, and keep moving. However, I can't help but notice that these coaches of life are actually pretty terrible at running their own lives yet feel compelled to tell others how to live theirs. Perhaps it is because the people that truly are good at inspiring others to greatness charge money for it.

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