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32 People Share the Best Words of Wisdom they’ve Ever Heard

By on February 28, 2017 at 1:16 pm

11. FIGHT!

Marriage advice: “Pick your battles”. Seriously, this helped me so much over the years as I’ve come to understand that most things just aren’t important enough to argue over and that you don’t “lose” anything by letting things go.

10. BFFs

True friends say good things behind your back and bad things to your face.

9. Be an MVP

You don’t get paid based on how hard you work. You get paid based on how hard you are to replace.

8. Priorities!

Never make someone a priority who only makes you an option.

7. Learn from Their Mistakes

My mom has a high-pressure six figure job, a huge house, a husband with no common sense with money, several pets, and three kids. She’s told me a million times to simplify. She said to buy a small, easy-to-maintain house and to think well before adding any dependent so I don’t have to work a stressful job 50-60 hours a week every week to pay for everything. Basically she’s telling me not to make the same mistakes she did and I’m doing everything I can to make the sacrifices she made so I can live a decent/low stress life worth it.

6. Effort Counts

Don’t be afraid to half-ass it. If the choice is between half-assing it, or not doing it at all, half-ass it all the way. It changed my life, learning to pace myself and deal with things that I can’t just jump into.

5. Life’s Hard

If it was easy, everybody would do it.

4. Control Is an Illusion

If you try to control your environment on principle of being in the right, you miss out on other valuable things, like trust and respect.

3. Just Be Cool Man!

Try not to be a dickhead.

2. Dad Knows Best

My Dad: “If you don’t like what you’re doing, do something else.” He went to McGill after WWII and took Engineering. He graduated and started working construction for a big civil company in Montreal. He met my mother on a construction job in a small town in Ontario. They married, and the kids started to come along. Construction slowed down, he went to work in mining and stayed there for the rest of his career. He retired early and never worked again, apart from taking up writing. The whole time he had wanted to be a journalist. I follow his advice. I’ve quit a job on a Wednesday and started another on a Friday. Late last year I quit a well paying job and moved to another for about the same pay but with the opportunity to work on technical projects I’ve been interested in for years. Life’s too short. You spend too much time at work to not be doing something that interests you and that you find rewarding.

1. Wear Sunscreen

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