Originally for the 30-Day Blog Challenge. Now just a blog about a flailing mermaid |
30-Day Blogging Challenge – day Fourteen Prompt: What is the one piece of advice you have received that you'll always carry with you? As a motivational speaker and mentor type thing, I give out advice all the time. Most of my advice is well thought out and used over and over again. Sometimes, however, it just falls out my month before I even know what has happened. The advice that just falls out is either really good, and I use it again, or so awful that even I want to tell myself to shut up. The latter is very rare, though, and I always cover it up well… it is fine! I swear! Occasionally, I offer advice and I think “huh, maybe I should take that on board myself”. For example, today I was doing some one-one sessions with some boys who are coming up to their final exams at school but are not doing too well. Everything I said would have been useful when I was failing school at their age! If only I could’ve gone back in time and tell myself. But then, I had to learn the hard way and I quite like that. Many people have given me hundreds of pieces of advice. Has any of it stuck? Probably, subconsciously. Can I remember any of it off the top of my head? No, not really! I think Chris’ advice about being myself sticks out for me. For years, I hid things I liked to do from people for fear of being judged. In fact, I stopped writing for a long time because one of my exes told me it was stupid. When I got with Chris, I decided lay it all out there. We have a few conversations like this: Me: I know it is stupid but look at my funky poem shaped like an ice cream C: Did you enjoy doing it? Me: Yeah, I guess so. C: If you enjoy something, it can’t be stupid! Me: Huh! *smiles* Take my advice Roll the dice Hell, do it twice |