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The Importance Of Taking Your Own Advice

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The Importance Of Taking Your Own Advice

As we go through life, we are constantly caring about others and watching out for their best interest. We will drop our hectic and busy life to call a best friend when she texts you saying “SOS I NEED YOUR ADVICE!” Especially as females, we always need a friends opinion or just a venting session. Should I have the last piece of cake, should I wear these boots with this shirt, should I stay the night, should I stay in or go out? All are frequent questions we desperately needs a friends opinion on because we just can not simply make the decision on our own.

We will give the best advice and send the longest, most thoughtful text to a friend about how she does not deserve him. Our girls will praise us for being a great listener and for giving the advice we do, but what happens when its our turn dealing with the boy troubles. Why can’t we just listen to our own advice? We give out the most since advice but we rarely take it ourselves. We happen to think that we immune to advice and maybe that we just do not want to except that fact that we need it as well. This world, and especially the females out their, need to read the texts we are sending to our friends and save them for ourselves. Do not justify that your situation is way different then the rest of your peers, because I guarantee you can find a similarity in the mess of it all.

The advice and guidance we are giving to our friends, we are so confident in and want to support them all the way. Our advice is the ones we have to take, and the most valuable. Do not push it off like our own guidance does not apply because it does. Look in the mirror and ask your own self what to do in the given situation. If someone tells us what to do it makes life easier for us and that we do not have to think. And of course, our friends know us like the back of their hands and have awesome words of encouragement, but we need to start realizing that we can use the advice we give to others and use it for ourselves. Maybe it is because we are aware as to what is best for ourselves but we just do not want to face the fact.

Advice is curtail and needed in our every day lives. Even though our own advice may be the hardest pill to swallow, at the end of the day you know whats best for you.

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