What is the best piece of advice you've been given?

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I'll start. If you don't know the answer say you'll come back to them. Don't be forced into a commitment. Applies to business and personal life.

What about you?

OHIO

only handle it once.

Don’t give up because it’ll take a long time. The time will pass anyway.

Your silence is your control. Stood me well through divorce

Be financially independent and never rely on a man for money

My grandads two pieces of advice …

1. If you don’t sort an argument straight away the damage is greater and harder to overcome.
2. Never buy anything on credit, save for it and then it means more.

Don't set yourself on fire to keep others warm.

Don't fuck anyone at work

Don't fuck someone else's husband

(Both my gran)

brilliant 😂

If you stop exercising it will become harder and harder, and eventually impossible, to restart.

If it will take less than a minute do it instead of putting it off

Time spent on reconnaissance is never wasted - from an old boss who was a former naval admiral, but applicable to everything!

Eat your frog - ie do the thing on your list you are most dreading first

Learn from the past, but don’t dwell on it.

and

You won’t please everyone, so you may as well please yourself.

It will be alright in the end - if it's not alright now, it's not the end

Don’t waste precious time with a bad one [boyfriend] as all the while you are missing opportunities to meet a good one.

When he tells you who he is, listen.

Children appreciate your attention more than money.

Dress for the job you want.

'No' is a complete sentence.

"It takes courage"

My mum said this to me when I was really struggling to breast feed my newborn and it a lot of pain. I had felt that it should be easy - this was the messaging from everyone - and I was failing my baby already. By saying this my mum made me reframe the struggle as something genuinely difficult that I was courageous to even be trying. She made me feel like a warrior rather than a failure.

Years later, whenever I'm struggling with something or worried I can't do something, I tell myself, it takes courage. And instantly feel better.

“Life is 10% of what happens to you, and 90% of how YOU react to it.”

This one stays with me, when I want to get annoyed at DH… I laugh instead and remember it’s not a big deal.

“You cannot be all things to all people”

this is what my mum said to me when I was quite new into the world of work, and stressing about the demands being placed on me.

Blowing out someone else's candle won't make yours burn brighter ( told to me by my gran)
Always choose kindness ( my great aunt)
Always choose the rollercoaster over the carousel ( another great aunt who lived her life by that, she was an amazing woman!)

Some fantastic advice on here so far

I work in auditing and quality control. That would be a terrible piece of advice for me 😃

You can't control anyone but you can control your reaction to them.

I love this thread!