Advice for your younger self

A good day to connect with good friends. If you were to advise your younger self, what would be the best advice?

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Hi and welcome Amy1. I suppose my younger self was to get a good education. It worked for me.

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Be active, not an activist and you’ll fare better. No cause is worth it and the scorn heaped on you will be unbearable.

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Be more aware of what others are thinking or trying to achieve - don’t let that dictate things or inhibit you but ffs don’t ignore such things!
PS welcome! PPS - the above is advice to my younger self, not me shouting at you.

hi Amy welcome to the forum, be aware, very aware, matron will be coming round with your meds. Lights out at 9pm

No one likes a know-all.

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Be a good listener

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Pretend you know less than you know, not more.

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Don’t waste your money on records and hifi equipment - MP3s and Spotify are coming!

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Stay with the analogue world, don’t go digital.

Here is another - learn the definition of hubris.

Think about the future, it’s happens more quickly than you might imagine


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Don,t trust anyone


Put money away for a Rainey day .

Think for yourself .

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“If you tell the truth, you have nothing extra to remember”

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Just don’t do that! What is ‘that’? Well, quite a lot of things really. :slight_smile:

Here’s another, along the lines of putting money aside. Be willing to put up with a less than perfect job if the company pension contributions are good. And, overpay on your mortgage payments so that you get rid of it as quickly as possible.

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Welcome to the forum Amy


Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons speak your truth quietly and clearly and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant! They too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexatious to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter! For there will always be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and dis-enchantment it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the council of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.

But do not distress yourself with imaginings, many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe; no less than the trees and the stars you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with your God, whatever you conceive him to be, and whatever your labours and aspirations; in this noisy confusion of life keep pace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams it is still a beautiful world. Be careful, strive to be happy.

From a quotation in old St Paul’s Church. Baltimore c. 1692

Many posters on the forum will identify me from this text

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“Be good. If you can’t be good, be careful” 
 something my father said to the teenage me, more than once. The sound advice has been passed on.

Advice given me, by my Dad. And emphasised to siblings. Because Tried Tested and a proven Winner.

Skip Property Rental’s, Or minimise at the earliest.
Bite the bullet. Put on hold Extravagance and Save. Whilst Fit, Able and Income secure.
Enabling to ‘Buy Freehold Ownership’. With minimal Short term Mortgages.
Net result.
Your on the First Rung. With meaningful collateral.
Enabling progress up the rung.
Self sufficiently. By Upgrading property value. Even creating a Property portfolio.
Benefit. You hold the reigns. Not nefarious Retirement policies

By Consolidating, Downgrading and or Selling off. Providing a comfortable Early Retirement.
And a higher starting rung, for those Inheriting.

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Hello Amy; Welcome To The Forum :slightly_smiling_face:

Stick to your principles, if people don’t like it, tell them you have others


Welcome Amy

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