We often get advice from other people – sometimes we ask for it, and sometimes it is just volunteered by someone trying to be helpful. It is always easier to learn from someone else’s experience than having to reinvent the wheel, but sometimes the advice we get can be contradictory and confusing, especially when we have a real problem.

 

If you are overwhelmed by a lot of advice from others, the best thing to do is to “look who’s talking.” Look at the source of the advice in order to weigh up whether or not it is likely to be useful. Would you take financial advice from a bankrupt? Then don’t take relationship advice from someone who can’t sustain a healthy relationship themselves! The only exception to this rule is the sort of advice that begins, “Don’t make the mistake I made!”

 

There are lots of armchair experts who are ready to offer their opinions on all sorts of subjects. But no one can stand in your shoes but you, one size does not fit all, and there are exceptions to every rule anyway. However well meant the advice, it may not apply to you and your situation. So don’t just weigh up the advice you are given, look too at the source of that advice before taking it. At the end of the day, it’s YOUR life!