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So, what’s the best piece of advice someone's given you? Maybe someone has shared a genuinely life changing tip? Perhaps they passed on the secret on how to get your kids to clean their room/go to sleep/eat their greens. We’d also, more specifically, like to hear about the best financial piece of advice you’ve ever received. Whether it’s on how to save? Or maybe on what to do with your savings? Whatever they are, we’d love to hear them!

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Manners cost nothing.
Be nice to people.
Sometimes you're not the issue, someone else is.

Trust in yourself and don't be afraid to make mistakes.

Be kind to animals and care about the environment

Believe in yourself and never worry about anyones negative opinions.

Save the nagging for the really important things!

write your worry down in a notebook and lock it. look at it the next day and decide if it was worth worrying about. if not rip the page out and burn it - worry gone!

That when it comes to work, you are only as good as the last thing you do. You can be flawless for years but one mistake and that is all people remember.

Take out a mortgage based on one salary, then you know if one of you has to stop work you can still manage.

As clichéd as it sounds, "Be Yourself". It may take years to really learn to to be able to do so but then everything else falls into place.

On life in general - hope for the best, but prepare for the worst

Always look on the bright side of life!

do unto others etc. what goes around, comes around

Don't ever take anything for granted. Your life can change dramatically overnight.

My bff who is 33 years old has just been diagnosed with breast cancer

The best advice I ever gt from my mum was to look after number one and don't worry about what anyone else thinks. If it's right for you, thaht's what counts!

If possible, live on one wage before you have children to enable you to have the choice of whether to go back to work or not afterwards.

From a childcare point of view - trust your instincts and there is no such thing as making a rod for your own back.

My mum always said this to me "Have the courage to live a life true to yourself, not the life others expect of you."

And i now give the same advice to my children x

Never let anyone put you down

Always put family first rather than work - work is a fleeting thing but family is forever.

Never speak in anger - wait until you've calmed down.

Trust your instincts. I think that advise saved me from multiple problems

Always trust your first instinct and be true to who you are - this is the best piece of advice ever given to me by my great aunt when I was a teenager. So far it has stood me in good stead.

Not to worry/stress - the advice I was given & which works is simply if you have a worry - if you can do something about it, do it. if you can't forget it. Takes practise

to be myself

"Look left, indicate left" (from my driving instructor) I hear it in my head every-time I go around a round about.

Best advice was -

you can be miserable or happy- it's the same amount of work