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What if We All Took Our Own Advice?

I’m sure you’ve done it…given advice to someone who was in dire need of your particular brand of expertise. We all have.

But…

…did it ever dawn on you that maybe, just maybe, you should have taken your own good advice at some point in your life? Hmm? I mean, “Been there, done that” doesn’t really qualify you as someone who knows what they’re doing. Not really. It just means you’ve done the same dumb thing that your friend has done…and likely come away with the same tattered ego.

There are two ways of looking at that question, really. I mean, what if you had taken your own advice? What if you had looked at your situation and thought about what you’d tell someone else in the same spot…then decided not to follow through with your intended course of action? At least then you might call yourself a quasi-expert simply because of your own trial and error.

What I’m suggesting is this:

Nearly everyone has their own philosophy. Nearly everyone is capable of giving sound advice. And if everyone took their own advice, there would be very few people who would need advice in the first place!

Just sayin’…