Life Advice: Wisdom From Readers
Takeaway: If you’ve been in the community awhile, you know I love a good life advice list. I polled readers of this newsletter and followers on my social media accounts what single piece of advice they’d give to someone to live a better life. Below you’ll find some of these responses, as well as a few I’ve nabbed from other sources.
Life Advice: Wisdom From Readers To Liv Better
I’m a firm believer that everyone on this Earth has a valuable lesson they can teach you. This is why I like to stay curious about others. You never know how profound their particular piece of wisdom could be for you.
Not long ago, I polled members of this community (as well as my IRL community) on the one piece of life advice they’d give to live a good life.
Below you’ll find this life advice, in no particular order. If you resonate and adopt even one of these guidelines, I think you’ll find your life improves meaningfully.
Move your body a little each day.
It’s never too late to start over and find new passions.
Tomorrow was yesterday.
If you’re deciding between the large and extra-large pizza, go with the XL every time.
Never lend anything you can’t afford to lose.
Don’t determine your value by the opinions of others.
Don’t let ten bad minutes ruin your whole day.
Don’t carry yesterday’s burdens into today. You can’t change yesterday, but you have control over your actions and reactions today.
Done is better than perfect.
Show kindness with your words and actions.
Don’t make promises you can’t keep.
Influence people with a magnet, not a hammer.
What you focus on grows.
Love yourself.
The day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit.
Buy a plunger before you need a plunger.
Be patient.
If you listen carefully, you can always learn something from the person you’re talking to.
You can tell the size of a man by the size of the things that bother him.
Go with the decision that will make for a good story.
Always go out in public dressed like you’re about to meet the love of your life.
What you tolerate teaches others how to treat you.
Everyone is doing the best they can with the information they have available to them. Give grace to yourself and others.
Giggle yourself to sleep every night.
Trust but verify.
Invest 15% of your income as early as you can start…and never waver.
Know when to sleep in and when to rise early.
Live a life you’d want to read a biography about.
Learn to discern when to plan ahead and when to live in the moment.
When your finances allow it, pick up the tab.
Don’t drive yourself to the hospital if you will need a wheel chair when you get there.
Find a mentor and do what they’re doing.
Don’t ask questions you don’t want the answers to.
Know that all emotions are temporary, and they pass. Don’t make permanent decisions based on temporary emotions.
Be the person you’d want your child to meet.
Would you add anything to the list? Share you wisdom in the comment section below.
“Cuss if you must, but give up? Never.” Said the man with dirty hands and head first in the engine compartment af his 20 year old truck.