What's the best advice you're ever been given?

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Be it from mumsnet or real life!

If it ain't broke, don't fix it

This too shall pass... it really will. Time really is a great healer. Some things/feelings never truly disappear but time helps.

TalkingPeace2 Isn't it other way round?

think about it for 48 hours. If it's still playing on your mind, you'll have your answer. if it's not, it was never meant to be.

From my lovely and wise uncle.

Will you still care in 5 years? Then it isn't important.

If you make a mistake, tell it all, tell it early, tell it yourself. This has saved my sorry ass a couple of times at work! Takes a bit of guts to zoom into your boss's office and fess up immediately but is always better in the long run.

Sorry if you've already seen this, but I think this is awesome

blog.cleveland.com/pdextra/2007/09/regina_bretts_45_life_lessons.html

Never tell your children your indiscretions.

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blog.cleveland.com/pdextra/2007/09/regina_bretts_45_life_lessons.html

The prize for being good at digging holes is a bigger shovel.

'You can't change anyone else's behaviour, you can only change your own behaviour.

If you're a broody kind of person, the chances are you'll still be broody after having a baby, so don't rush having one.

Que sera sera.

When you are knackered & out of ideas, keep trying. You will surprise yourself.

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

regarding the children, I think a HV or someone once said "Just make their world a good place" and it really helped me when I was getting mixed up with stuff like naughty step, sleep problems, food issues, temper tantrums etc There is so much conflicting advice out there but if I stick by that it always works.

"Do as you would be done by" (Thanks, Dad)

I'd treat The Queen as I would our dustmen!

Regret is a waste of time. Move on.

What takes you ten minutes in the evening takes you half an hour i n the morning.

(The latter was from my mother & so annoyingly she was right! )

Nothing lasts forever (good or bad)

'Don't fight with pigs. You'll both get dirty but the pigs like it.' Courtesy of my mum.

Go hard or go home.

Don't worry about something that hasn't happened.
As in, it may never happen so don't waste your time or energy worrying about it! Have to remind myself of that sometimes...

Recall- I love that- just make their world a good place- I'm going to remember that one when I'm stressing over the day to day nonsense

You can't change other people but you can change your reaction to them.

I repeat this often to DH who gets road rage

Also loving 'make their world a good place'

Where there's hair, there's comfort, where there's none, there' s an arguement.

This too shall pass

Never make someone a priority if they consider you merely an option

Don't sweat the small stuff (and remember, it's all small stuff)

Before you diagnose yourself with depression, make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by arseholes.

and one like JumpHerWho which was something about not being able to change a situation but you can change your reaction to it.

oh and - Guilt is pointless. Just let it go.