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 : )

Pick your battles!

You cannot control everything that happens around you, but you can control how you react to it.

Breathe. It's just a bad day, not a bad life.

This is my favourite

My mum pressuring me to have a baby in my early 30s. “Don’t throw away your fertile years for a man who won’t commit”, “You don’t need everything to be perfect first”, “you don’t need to be sure”.
This advice completely conflicted with the urban values my friendship groups had - Got to meet the right man, got to have an independent career, got to feel ready and go in with your eyes open, etc. Most of them have ended up childless because they left it too late waiting for perfect conditions. My mum knows too many women like that who are gutted they don’t have children or grandchildren. I really thought I wasn’t ready or I wasn’t the motherly type, but how wrong I was! Thank you mum. There’s much we disagree on, but this was hands down the best advice I’ve had.

"Never, ever, bloody anything ever!" I've lived my life by that rule.

If you can't get out of it, get into it.

I think of this when I have to do some boring work stuff. Basically reframing how I think about situations.

I want to love this but I don't know what it means.

If you have pale skin always wear dark coloured swim wear.

Always drive like everyone else on the road is an idiot.

Is something missing ? Just doesn’t make sense to me.

A wise co-worker once told me that "some people are just not nice".

I also like: "if they wanted to, they would".

And - a good education is no burden.

Something along the lines of 'it's nice to be important, but it's important to be nice'.

Also, 'eyebrows are sisters, not twins'.

Oh and regarding parenting: everything's a phase! I whisper it to myself every time the DC are doing something awful

That’s a great saying

There is a fine line between tolerance and abuse.

You can't change the wind but you can move the sails.
These feelings will pass.
Everything is a phase.

Always wipe your camera lens

Do not listen with the intent to reply but with the intent to understand

"Leave and don't come back."

~ my mum

Get rid of the people who bring nothing to your life.

When it comes to work think ‘what would a man do in this situation.
brilliant for all women. Would a man make the tea? Run that errand? Ask for that pay rise? Tell everyone about the great thing they just did? Speak up about something/someone?

it’s really encouraged me to be bolder, speak up more and asked for what I want. Because I know the boy/man would.

I give that advise to all younger women I mentor.

Oh, and your colleagues don’t have to be your friends. You can have a perfectly good relationship with someone at work you do t particularly like if you’re professional and treat them with the respect their title is due.

I like this. Reminds me of "Your first reaction is usually the right one".
As someone who finds decisions hard, I find this reassuring.

Yy a colleague of mine used to say "be more male"