What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt.

Do your best till you know better, then do better

Or

Still I rise

Or

The rain … always…. Stops…..

Those are by Maya Angelou

These are the things that I am always repeating to myself, everyday …. Every … Single…. Day!

I have told these to my girls, my friends, and basically anyone who will ever listen.

So many times we put value on things because of someone else. Do they pay your bills? Have they been in the hills and valley’s you have? Have the same scars? Nope, my dad told me once, “Don’t take advice from anyone younger or as old as you are,, they have no idea”. Bam right between the eyes. No one has seen the things I’ve seen. No one has walked though the paths i have, there is no way they can weigh all the evidence and give you advice, but and this is true, they only can offer the advice based on their own walk.

If you are asking advice from someone, make sure their walk has been harder than yours, or they just might not get it. Not that someone like that can’t give good advice, they most certainly can. Just make sure you make the decision based on what you think, not what someone else tells you to do. Because in the end, they don’t have to live with it, you do.

One of my very BBF’s ever is younger than me, but we are basically the same person (we’ve been through some crap) so the advice is sound. However, i have an even younger friend whose advice is not applicable to me, we are in different places.

So I guess my advice is kinda dual sided. Be careful where you ask for advice, and be even more careful of the decisions you make on that advice, because you have to live with the consequences.

❤ ME!!