Tell me your life's top tip

[browniesandcakes]

I'll go first....

If you are feeling low, do something for someone else. Not because you have too, but because you can. I promise you will walk away feeling more inspired than you did before! Just be kind in life, it's so rewarding.

Delete social media

Smile at a mum with a stroppy toddler and say something nice.

Make a decision, it doesn’t matter so much what you decide, but being decisive keeps you moving and that means opportunities come your way

Yes, this. I've never joined because I knew it would be unpleasant/addictive/numbing.

I wish I had read this sooner!!!

we buried my dog in the garden where she used to sleep and now it is literally the perfect place for a veg plot and I cannot use this space. She was a big dog aswell 🙈
I miss her but also keep thinking would it be really bad if I dug her up and re rehomed her!!! 🙈🙈

Someones opinion of me is not fact.

Never put off any job that will take less than 5 mins. Just do it now abs your future self will thank you. Sincerely, someone with ADHD.

Amor fati- accept what happens, good and bad, your attitude is key. everyone has shit to deal with.

No more c*nts.

If you get married and like your last name, keep it. Don't change it for the sake of tradition or to make your husband happy. Your name is important.

My life tip would be this - before you criticise Christianity and Christians, read one of the gospels and look at the founder. Jesus was perfect. Real Christians try to live like Him because they love Him. But Christians are human, so we do wrong things - sometimes intentionally but usually unintentionally. Please don't judge Christianity by what you see Christians doing: judge it by the One who started it off.

I can’t think of one but I’m reading feel the fear and do it anyway and after categorizing all the different possible fears you can have, it says they all come down to one phrase.. ‘I can’t handle it’. If you reframe things so that you can handle them it takes away the fear.

Don't give too much of yourself. Take no shit. Buy the shoes.

If you find yourself at the end of a relationship - either by your own hand or theirs - spend at least a year living on your own. You may never look back, even if you could never have imagined it before.

If alcohol is starting to creep in and causes harm to yourself or others on a fairly regular basis, let it go before you can't.

Also rather than putting things off and your life slowly getting worse (messy house, messy car, list of jobs to do round the house, emails not replied to, food shopping not done etc).. ‘if a job is worth doing, do it badly the first time’. This gets things done and stops you worrying about them, you can always go back and make it better. So many people are perfectionists without realising so can’t motivate themself to do the job to the standard they want

Exercise regularly and don’t eat any crap food. No seed oils, sugar, white flour, white rice. You cannot exercise away a poor diet. A poor diet leads to inflammation, inflammation leads to disease.

And spend more time with Labradors when life gets too much.

I'm amazed in that there are people who don't do this! Are there many people out there who use a cloth to clean the toilet? Ew...what do you do with it afterwards?

If you can afford to do it. Save your child benefit in an investment trust and forget about it. Depending on market conditions and compounding interest it will be a great investment for a house deposit etc for your child. I managed over 55k.

My top tip is watch 5 minute crafts everyday as they will be life altering/changing and the tips they give are on Cloud 9.

Yes to this! No need to explain (and if you do misjudge someone you can sort it out later). Follow your instincts and get away if someone / something feels unsafe.

Deal with the shit life throws at you and move on. There is light at the end of the tunnel, you can't see it if you're always looking behind you.

Never judge others - a life-enhancing quality to be learned the younger the better.

To stay happy let go of the things that make you sad 😞

My now-departed mum’s best piece of advice:

Just throw it into bin bags and sort it out at the other end

I find it can be applied to most situations.