Advice thread

Always take your socks off before your trousers in front of a lady.

You affect something to gain the effect. That's just grammar rather than advice to be honest but it's been annoying me lately.
 
Priv said:
If I’d listened to my family I’d of saved myself a lot of bother, I didn’t and lived a nightmare for years.
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And if I'd listened to mine I wouldn't have been happily married for the last 30 years...every situation is different.
 
Outside of a mortgage, don’t get into debt.

Make an effort to keep in touch with your friends, even when it seems like it’s always you doing the hard work.

Don’t waste time worrying about what other people think about you (assuming you’re a good person, which you most probably are!).

Exercise daily.

Spend as much of your time as you can doing, and being around, the things that you love.

Stay off social media as much as you can. Comparing yourself to exaggerated versions of other people’s lives won’t do you any good.

And one last one that I am constantly battling with….be disciplined with your own time and put yourself first.
 
It's not very profound advice, but my contribution is don't bother saving half used tins of paint. You won't even remember that you have them until you eventually take the whole lot of them to the tip twenty years on and get magnolia gloss all over the car boot carpet.
 
Paterson said:
It's not very profound advice, but my contribution is don't bother saving half used tins of paint. You won't even remember that you have them until you eventually take the whole lot of them to the tip twenty years on and get magnolia gloss all over the car boot carpet.
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Exactly and who on earth uses magnolia gloss these days
 
I used to race motorbikes and there’s a thing where you tend to hold your breath a lot because you’re tense and ‘a bit busy’ but you’re starving your brain of oxygen and affecting your performance. A guy called Kenny Roberts said ‘relax on the straights and get ready for the bends’ years later I thought what a great metaphor for life that is.

Also, don’t eat yellow snow.
 
Don’t worry about what others think.

Live in the moment as it’s all we have.

Don’t waste time procrastinating - if something needs doing do it.

There is a lot of knowledge in the world. Read as many non-fiction as possible and expand your own knowledge. Also remember there is always someone who knows more than you.

Be kind and understanding to others, but hold yourself to a high standard.
 
Linthorpe_Exile said:
Maybe not including your nearest and dearest, but "Don't set yourself on fire to keep other people warm" springs to mind, along with the lyrics to "Everybody's Free (to wear sunscreen)" which although a bit twee has some elements of truth (I can vouch for the knees):

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '99
Wear sunscreen
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it
A long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists
Whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable
Than my own meandering experience, I will dispense this advice now

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth, oh, never mind
You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth
Until they've faded, but trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back
At photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now
How much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked
You are not as fat as you imagine
Don't worry about the future
Or worry, but know that worrying
Is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing Bubble gum
The real troubles in your life
Are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind
The kind that blindsides you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday
Do one thing every day that scares you
Saying, don't be reckless with other people's hearts
Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours

Floss

Don't waste your time on jealousy
Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind
The race is long and in the end, it's only with yourself
Remember compliments you receive, forget the insults
If you succeed in doing this, tell me how
Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements

Stretch

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life
The most interesting people I know
Didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives
Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't
Get plenty of calcium
Be kind to your knees
You'll miss them when they're gone
Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't
Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't
Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the 'Funky Chicken'
On your 75th wedding anniversary
Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much
Or berate yourself either
Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's
Enjoy your body, use it every way you can
Don't be afraid of it or what other people think of it
It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own
Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your own living room
Read the directions even if you don't follow them
Do not read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly
Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good
Be nice to your siblings, they're your best link to your past
And the people most likely to stick with you in the future
Understand that friends come and go
But a precious few, who should hold on
Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle
For as the older you get
The more you need the people you knew when you were young
Live in New York City once but leave before it makes you hard
Live in northern California once but leave before it makes you soft

Travel

Accept certain inalienable truths
Prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too, will get old
And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young
Prices were reasonable, politicians were noble
And children respected their elders
Respect your elders
Don't expect anyone else to support you
Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse
But you never know when either one might run out
Don't mess too much with your hair
Or by the time you're 40 it will look 85
Be careful whose advice you buy but be patient with those who supply it
Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past
From the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts
And recycling it for more than it's worth
But trust me on the sunscreen

Songwriters: Nigel Andrew Swanston / Tim Cox
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This song resonates with me quite a bit and I like to listen to it now and again.

My best mate lost his Dad out of the blue and a few weeks later this song came on the car radio when we were driving to work. The flowing lines still scare me now.

"The real troubles in your life
Are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind
The kind that blindsides you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday"

and

"Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good"
 
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