What's The Best Advice You Have Ever Received?

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Serena77

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You can't understand somebody until you've walked a mile in their shoes.


Not able to judge somebody until you put yourself in their position for true empathy.


what is your favorite advice someone has given you?
 

Remember the reasons you have for marrying the woman you are marrying.

57 years later those are still in place
 
I used to have a bad spending/gambling problem. I am not being light about your question when I say the best advice came from my husband when he said "Get your shit together NOW if you want us to stay together." I am off the bad habits, and we are going on almost 17 years married.
 

From this day onward, walk easy on the earth, plant trees, kill no living things,
live in harmony with all creatures, use no more resources than you need,
restore the earth where you are, and listen...listen to what it is telling you.:rose:

I actually did a painting with this as the theme...
 
I can't remember who told me this, 'never start smoking or drink alcohol',terrible habits'.
I never drank alcohol,but started smoking in my teens when pack of cigarettes was 35 cents. I was never a heavy smoker,usually took me 2-3 days to finish a pack I quit'cold turkey' around 1990 when a pack was $1 Sue
 
A friend told me "Find a lady that is "marriage minded" like yourself, with similar-to-same interests". I did and we've been married for 17 years now.
 
IKE said:
Don't tug on Superman's cape, don't spit into the wind, don't pull the mask off the Lone Ranger and don't mess around with Jim.

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That's right...good lessons there Ike! I liked the song so much, my foot was tapping to the beat.
 
Do it while you can. So many older people I know who cannot do what they put off due to medical or other issues. My wife and I did all we wanted to do before we were 40. Nothing left in the bucket list. I was given this advice by a man whose wife died before they retired. He said that they delayed so many things until retirement and now cannot do any of them. I saw this with my dad too who had a major heart attack 7 months after he retired and a cousin who retired but then worked as a consultant and had a major heart attack.

My cousin encouraged me to retire as soon as possible. As I mentioned above, he retired and then went back to work thinking he could earn some extra money to do more things when he finally stopped working. He had the heart attack and a heart disease. His wife was hospitalized for several weeks. All fo their plans went up in smoke and now they can do no more than walk a few blocks a day.

I can truly say that if I died today there is nothing I regret putting off. My wife and I enjoyed all sorts of experiences, mostly conventional and some unconventional.
 
"Invest in the stock market" my dad said to me when I was a young boy. He made a good living but we were not wealthy. I did not quit the party life until I was 32 and then knuckled down and started my investing life. Knowing what it brought me I have urged many young people to do the same. Sadly, many thought I was full of beans. They firmly believed they would never invest anything and I think it was due in part to their putting themselves so deep in debt with mortgages, car payments, children, etc. while relying solely on their paycheck to get them through the week.
 

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