Things people have said that stuck with you

[Corneliusthecamel]

Was recently chatting to a colleague - a lovely, kind, cheery woman who is always smiling. I asked her what her secret was, how she’s always so cheerful and upbeat. She shrugged and said ‘if you keep waking up and don’t love the thought of your plans, try something else!’

Honestly, it was such a simple statement (and obviously hugely unpractical in reality sometimes, haha) but she had a point!

Also reminds me of when my Nan gave up smoking after 50 odd years - I asked her how she’d managed it as it must be so tough after all that time, she just said ‘I just tell myself that I simply mustn’t have one, and that’s that’

Brilliant! What’s yours?

Exactly. My DH tells me this about my job too. Great advice 👍

I'm retired now, but in my very first job in the civil service my male boss brought me in to his office for a pep talk, chat....

He was a lovely man and for some reason took me under his wing and helped me along the way. Those were the days...

Anyhow I will never forget one pearl of wisdom he imparted to me -

"zenai, the first thing you should do is learn to read upside down, that way you will know everything that's on your colleagues and your boss's desk when you're sitting on the other side" I did laugh, but I did perfect reading upside down writing and it has stood me in great stead over the years.

That was back in the day when everything was typed or written. Not sure if I could develop X-ray eyes to see into the back of a laptop/screen nowadays. LOL.😊

When you’re worrying about something think: is there anything I can do about it? If yes, then do it. If no, then why are you worrying about it?

That's a shame, slabs are amazing!

I can read upside down and back to front, which can indeed be very useful. Unfortunately, my manager realised.