What's the absolute best bit of advice anyone ever gave you?

@boomerang,

boomerang wrote:

"Hold your dominion"

That's come in handy more times than I can count.

Confession time.

I have never really known what that means.

ebrown p wrote:

Make mistakes enthusiastically.

Hmmmmm......interesting...

JPB wrote:

Always speak to your children as if there was a guest in the room.

Love it!

eoe wrote:

"Offer them fifty cents on the dollar."
Good advice, which I took when cleaning up my credit years ago. It worked. Saks Fifth Avenue, Ann Taylor and Citibank all took the offer.

Never thought of it!

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Probably the best (but not in any grand sense) advice I've ever received is also advice I never followed.

"Always leave the table a little hungry."

To be fair to myself, I'm pretty sure the giver (former old, old neighbor) never followed it, either.

Otherwise, I'd be inclined to defer to Brian. "Don't let anyone tell you what to do." Wink

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"Spend less than you make. Never borrow unless it will make you money."

From my grandfather who was child in Czarist Russia and saw a relative carted off to debtor's prison by the local police. He told all the grandchildren the story in great horrifying detail as if it happened just the week before. I was probably 12 years old before I learned neither the Czar nor debtor's prison still existed.

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@patiodog,

More honoured in the breach than the observance, followed by a goddam thing I can't recall the name of, but which contains its own contradiction....good puppy!!

What is the name of that thing???

PARADOX!!!!!

Thank heavens.

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@Green Witch,

Oh dear!!!! Yes...the Dickensian debtor's prison...only was Russia worse?

Mr Micawber said the first bit too.

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My dear friend and major professor in college, Sr. Marcella Marie Holloway:
Write about what you know."

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My father:
"If God had wanted one person to do the thinking for everyone, he would've given only one person a brain. God gave you your own brain, so think for yourself."

My mother:
"Be very, very careful about what you put in writing."

My mentor:
"Laugh it off."

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@dlowan,

dlowan wrote:

boomerang wrote:

"Hold your dominion"

That's come in handy more times than I can count.

Confession time.

I have never really known what that means.

i've always thought of it in the same vein as, "if you can keep your head while those about are losing theirs"

with a bit of "stand your ground", and a dash of, "in the end, the person you can rely on most, is yourself"

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a favourite saying of a good friend of mine was, "always remember, what jack says about jill, says more about jack, than it does about jill"

although it was told to me years before there was an internet, it comes in handy when negotiating message boards

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You'll shoot out your eye.

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"Cotton kills."

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'the most important thing to learn in a marriage is what to forget/forgive, and what not to"

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@mags314772,

Yikes, my first grade teacher (oh, I cried in the hallway before going into the room that first day) was Sr. Marcelline Marie. But we were only learning to print the alphabet back then. (I'd skipped most of kindergarten, so it was good that I was raised back then instead of now, with all the present channel for success pre schooling).

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"Count to 10 - or even better, sleep on it, before responding (you impulsive thing, Ms Olga)!"

This has saved me a lot of heartache, the need for apologies, say nothing of embarrassment, disgrace & remorse. When I finally got the hang of it. Mind you, I am now dead boring! Neutral

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@dlowan,

dlowan wrote:

boomerang wrote:
"Hold your dominion"

Confession time.

I have never really known what that means.

After a few years of watching how people reacted to that, I finally decided that it was a lovely vague thing that people could make it fit whatever they needed it to fit.

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@dlowan,

dlowan wrote:

Hmmm..what does being a sport mean in your life?

handling losses/downs with some grace, handling wins/ups with more grace.

trying not to fall back on "oh, I don't know how to do that", but getting out there and giving everything a try.

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help others achieve their goals and they will help you achieve yours

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Quote:

Never drive an inch further than you absolutely have to in reverse gear.

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eyes open, mouth shut, till you know whereat resides your butt.

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This one I gave to myself:

There's one place where you can easily (and really should) let others get ahead of you: road.

That keeps me in control while I drive.

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