What is the best advice you have ever been given?

[savingdogs]

Okay, I gotta tell my quick dog story now. But this isn't my best advice, but everyone keeps mentioning trusting the dog. Sometimes they give good advice, too. But here is my story:

We had some dear friends we went camping with and we invited a crowd. Our friends invited a relative we had never met.

We had a lab/pit at the time, Sally was her name. Looked like a beefy lab, good dog. Sally could not STAND this relative. She would growl when he approached and did not let him come NEAR our daughter who was perhaps seven or eight at the time. We had to keep reprimanding her and putting her on a leash when he was around, but it made us wary of him because she never acted like that.

It was about five years later we found out from our dear friend that she found out this relative was a pediphile. She had not known herself. But Sally did!

I have always trusted dogs about people they don't like ever since.

 

[k0xxx]

DUCK!

If only I had listened...

 

[JRmom]

When I got my first job, my dad told me to never burn my bridges with employers. That's turned out to be good advice - I've worked in the past for the same employer 3 different times, and turned down another job offer from them about 2 years ago. I've had a few crappy jobs over the years, and worked for some weird people, but I've always tried to leave on good terms. You never know when or how that "weird" boss may come back into your life.

I also agree that dogs are good judges of character!

 

[aggieterpkatie]

When I was in my 4th year of college and had one year left (I was on the 5 year plan), I was pretty burned out and finding it hard to want to stay in school. My dad told me to draw a time line on a paper and mark one end birth and one death. Then he said mark where I was on the line (about 22 yrs old), then draw a line for one year later. He said a year may seem like a long time now, but in the grand scheme of things one year is NOTHING! I really remembered that and I think about it now when I'm going through things that don't seem like a lot of fun.

Also, someone once told me to think of life like a wagon wheel. When things are going badly and you're on the bottom, don't worry because the wheel has to turn and pretty soon you'll be on the top again.

 

[meriruka]

Someone told me "If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always had."

Oddly, I think about this whenever I open the fridge for the third time thinking something fun to eat will suddenly appear or when I see someone flick on a light switch for the 15th time thinking the light will magically work again.

The other one was "The single common denominator in all your failed relationships is YOU."

 

[Buster]

"Protect yourself! Keep that right hand up or I'm going to hit you with a left hook every time you drop it."

--The California light heavyweight boxing champion during a sparring session in 1975.

I didn't.

He did.

A metaphor for life.

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"Wipe your feet!"

--Mom

 

[Wannabefree]

Just let go, and let God take control. He already has it anyway. Quit fighting Him!

That's the best advice I have for everything.

 

[Denim Deb]

Why worry if you're going to pray, and why pray if you're going to worry?

 

[big brown horse]

Sally was a good old girl! I read that a dog is the only animal that can read a human's emotional facial features.

Mine is "When in doubt, add more wine."

 

[Up-the-Creek]

Best advice ever given to me,..and BELIEVE me,..people are FULL of advice whether you want it or not,..the best for me was,.."Don't believe anything anyone says,.."