Your Own Advice?

I try not to give advice unless I am asked or I ask the person.. And sometimes I do give advice that I myself have trouble keeping.. But I try..:)

Most people do not take their own advice. It is much easier to give advice than take it. I personally try to take my own advice but like most I very rarely do. It is like the old saying it is easier to find your faults in other than in yourself. I have also found that it is not always good to give advice weather it is asked for or not. There have been times when that so called good advice has come back to bite me in the but. Advice is like good wiskey. Wiskey tastes good going down but it can give you one bad headacke the next day. Advice to me is not teaching it is just expresing your own views or opinion on a subject. Some times it is good advice sometimes not.

We don't all go through the same things. But we should always handle any situation just one way. Knowiing that this too shall past. Knowing that we are bigger and stronger then any problem or situation that comes up. So yes, i always take my own advice, because that is the only advice I will ever give.

Unless the person is my husband (because his life affects mine!), I try not to give advice unless asked for it. Sometimes I would take the advice that I give. For instance, my sister asked my advice about taking a class in college that she wasn't ready for. She needs to take Spanish 2 but it has been years since taking Spanish 1. Her husband has to take Spanish 1 next semester and she could refresh by studying with him. The problem was, she already signed up for Spanish 2 and went to the first class, it didn't go well. She would have to pay back money if she dropped the class so that wasn't an option. The only 2 options were to take the class and do poorly or switch to a class that she doesn't need for her degree. My advice was to take the class that she didn't need. Study with her husband and brush up on her Spanish so she will be ready to take the class. If she were to take the class now and fail, it would be just as much a waste of money as it is to take an un-needed class. I would take my own advice in this case. It is usually in the case of love where I would fail to take my own advice. Like someone telling me something bad their significant other did and telling them, "I wouldn't put up with that!" Knowing full well, that I have put up with much worse!

I recently read somewhere that words don't teach, that life experience is the best teacher. I hate it when people, who don't have a clue who I am or what I'm all about, want to jump in my face with advice, so I try not to dish it out much, and when I do it's invariably from my own experience, so yeah, I follow my own advice, but I never really expect anybody else too. I did recently get some excellent computer advice though! I put it into effect immediately!

Terilee, I think I'd probably be a lot better off most of the time if I would take my own advice more than I do. I seem to be able to be awfully wise when it comes to advising others, and find myself in that position a lot. I'm sort of everyone's mom, big sis type of person, ya know? I have a feeling you're the same. And, I agree, we can learn from our own advice to others, just like sometimes I think we learn what we are really thinking by hearing ourselves say it aloud to someone else - which is why I always recommend talk therapy to friends who need more help than I can give with issues they're having. More than once, I've only found out what was REALLY bothering me after I was able to verbalize it and got to hear it out loud. What a trip! (boy, I hope that all made sense - it just sort of spilled out) Anyway, we'd all be better off if we took our own advice and if we were half as kind, loving and forgiving of ourselves as we tend to be with others. You posed a good question. I have a feeling you're going to get lots of responses. Way to go!

Hello Sometimes i do. but i often have to check myself when it comes to telling the kids one thing.and then i turn around and do the complete opposite. so I'm trying to change in that department.

I never do. Its bad....but I cant really help it. LOL My ex husband cheated on me. I decided to stay and try to work things out. A friend of mine found out her husband was cheating on her a few weeks after I found out my husband had been cheating. Well....I told her to leave the guy. I did eventually take my own advice...it just took a while to take effect on me.

Advice is definitely easier to give than to take. I try to take my own advice. When someone asks me what to do about a certain situation, I find it wasy to come up with a solution. But sometimes I find myself in the same situation, and it is not always easy, even when I know it is best. But I think about what I told another person and realize that if I expect to be taken seriously, I have to practice what I preach. So I do try. But I have to admit that sometimes I don't. I do the opposite because it is easier, or I apply the 'everyone is different' rule. It's a viable excuse... sometimes.

Hi friend,actually I take my own advice same with I advice other people.Usually we heard about this sentence,I advice you and at the same time I advice myself.so I think not wrong if I do it like that.

Advice is never taken - either by others or yourself.

This is a great topic so congrats terilee. Now to answer the question: Yes and no. I'm sure we all give advice on things that we of course do. I like to think that I always give the advice that I would take in situations but I have at times (to my younger siblings) given advice that will help them make better choices in situations that I have experience in life. It is not that I'm being hypocritical it is just that I don't want them to make some of the same mistakes that I have made, you know? So I either give advice that I follow, or give advice that if given the opportunity to go back and take it instead of other advice, i would take it.

I'll be honest I am always the first to stick my pennies worth in! I'm full of useful quotes & ways i which people 'should' be doing things. But I am now making a conscious effort to actually listen to myself. It was easy for me to tell my friend her boyrfirend was treating her badly, but when it came to my own boyfriend I would forgive him for everything. It's hard to listen to what you know if good sense if you care about something, but I think it is quite a gift to be able to look at your life from someone else's persepective. So far it hasn't been easy but it does mean I have gotten rid of said horrible boyfriend & am on the mend!