What's the single best piece of advice you ever received?

[HermoineJeanGranger]

Just that really!
Would love to know the best little pearls of wisdom you've been given : )

Feeling stuck means you've stopped growing. Be curious and keep learning your whole life.

People don't care anywhere near as much as you think - live YOUR life and never someone else's life.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Never dip into rent/mortgage money, keeping the roof over your head is the most important thing.

Try to keep saved a minimum of three months take home money. If you loose your job you have three months to get another.

Start your pension at 18 to retire early, look for a civil service job.

Never be a SAHM you will be vunerable, keep your income and career going.

All wise words from DF although I never had children I managed to pay mortgage off early and retire at 55. And yes, did go for the civil service.

If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is

The worst kind of thoughts are second thoughts - that has kept me going on a difficult path a few times...

Always check for loo paper before sitting down in a public loo..

Treat Others How you’d like to be treated yourself.

Trust your Gut.

Not my monkeys Not my circus

Stops people using me as a soundboard for drama that they don't really want advice on they just want to moan about.

Don't let worry , worry you .

"Do what works for you!" Parenting advice given to me when my first children was just born - I've really used it as I do not parent conventionally and have children who are neurodiverse.

I read this one and use it all the time! "There's nothing more powerful than not giving a f*!"

I learned this phrase on MN and I have to say it has been really incredibly useful in my life.

I have tried to pass it's intrinsic wisdom to my mother who is used as a flying monkey by her really nasty manipulative older sister but sadly she is too enmeshed in the cycle. One day though.

To do a repayment mortgage and not an endowment which was what the mortgage advisor was trying to push on us.

Resilience isn't putting up with something. Resilience is recognising when something is wrong and then trying to sort it.

If you put up with a situation because you don't want someone else to "win", they've already won.

Don't have more children than you have hands...

Never drink alone

Don't expect life to be fair.

It sounds very negative but actually it's a good thing to remember!

Your nana was very wise!!!

"Most people are quite ordinary looking"

I used to worry about my looks and found it refreshing to realise that very few people are stunning, very few are truly unfortunate with their looks and the vast majority are somewhere in the middle and no one really cares what they look like

A drunk once told me - You never know who is in front of you.
Not sure if it's completely true but I always remembered it.

Its better to have a £10 handbag that contains £1000, than a £1000 bag which only has £10 in it. Both bags will carry your purse, phone, keys just as well.

Never get a big haircut/restyle less than 2 weeks before a special event.

Feel the fear, and do it anyway

If he hits you, leave.

Relationships are like farts. If you have to force it, it's probably crap.

Never be completely reliant on a man always make sure if you need to you can get away

my nanny drilled this into us young women in the family

when consumed with hate it only eats away at one person yourself

from the moment you find out your are pregnant your life is no longer your own

all advice from my nanny she was a staunch feminist in her views but would probably not have called herself that (I can’t remember her using the term)

Other people's opinion of me is none of my business. As a people pleaser, this one took a while to take on board.

Don't get involved in your child's fall outs with another child - my grandma used to always say that.

Seen good friends argue and say things they can't take back, all over their child's petty squabbles, then whilst the mums are still arguing the kids are best friends again.
Better off just leaving them to it, because 99% of the time they'll sort it out themselves.