What’s your best LIFE tip?
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| January 02, 2012
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My best advice always comes from friends, so for the New Year, I'm asking for all of us in the Kitchen Scoop community to share our best tips. I'm talking our best tips in the kitchen, in the home, in life. This week we will start with life. Kinda like resolutions, but those kind that make not only you better, but the world around you.
The possibilities are endless on what you can share, but please be clean and helpful.
Maybe it's the advice your grandmother gave you that you still live by. Maybe it's that hard lesson you learned, but has changed the way you live. Maybe it's something you read on a status update on facebook, but really made a difference in your life. Now is the time to share it.
You can enter as many comments as you care to. I will randomly draw a name for a free, signed copy of Desperation Entertaining! (You must include your email address when you comment- it will not be shown on the page- so I can contact you to get your mailing address. Your personal information will never be shared with anyone - promise).
Share those pearls of wisdom. I know you have them!
Here's my entry: Everyday you can, get outside and feel the air (and hopefully sun) on your face. It's amazing how just breathing fresh air will clear the cobwebs, erase the pain and make you happy to be alive. Try it, it really works!
I asked my mom what her best life advice is. She said, "It may be cliche, but whether a situation is good or bad, this too shall pass."
My grandmother's advice was always, "Never say Never! and "Anything worth doing is worth doing NOW!" I had to chuckle when we both said those two statements almost at the same time. She's been gone for over 15 years, but her wisdom still rings true to this day.
I can't wait to read your life advice. Let's make 2012 a year of wisdom.
Comments
From Samina - January 02, 2012
My mantra for the new year is, don't keep putting off the things you want/need to do. For me, it's getting on an exercise regimen. I've spent the last months convincing myself that I'd start my exercise program "tomorrow". That tomorrow started yesterday & I intend to stick with it. Happy New Year & thanks for all your great recipes & musings over the last one.
From Cindy - January 02, 2012
I've started keeping a list of things I'm thankful to God for - an answered prayer, a sweet time of worship, a little comment from one of the kids, a good meal, etc. It reminds me of how many things I have to be thankful for and helps me have a better attitude each day.
From Cindy - January 02, 2012
And that same grandmother always put her lipstick on first thing in the morning no matter how she felt...
From Amy Sherman - January 02, 2012
You can never say "I love you" too many times!
From Kathy - January 02, 2012
let it be... quit trying to swim upstream, turn around and go with the flow.
From Martin Hudson - January 02, 2012
Life has taught me that opportunity doesn’t knock twice so when you see one, jump on it.
From Jim B. - January 02, 2012
If you are BLUE, get up and DO!!!
From Myra - January 02, 2012
One of my favorite rules to live by was something one of my children's preschool teachers said. She had this rule posted in her classroom and I thought it was a gem: Be a helper, not a handful. Although she was using it in the 3 year olds classroom, I think it is a great way to live your life at any age. We adopted it in our home from that day forward. I have adopted it my work life and my spiritual life as well. My mother also kept this saying framed and hanging in her home and now it hangs in mine: I live for those that love me, Whose hearts are kind and true; For the heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my spirit, too; For all human ties that bind me, For the task by God assigned me, For the bright hopes left behind me, And the good that I can do.
From Nancy - January 02, 2012
My mother always told me beauty takes pain. I try to remember that when I am pulling on my Spanx. Also ladies never sit on the curb. (this comment was made as we neighborhood girls sat on the curb waiting our turn at four square).
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