December Daily: useful advice

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runpunkrun -- advice you've found useful

Punk adds:: "I STILL think about the family advice you shared with us that if you're wondering whether you should turn your headlights on, you should. That is a solid rule and I follow it all the time because I drive an old car where those sorts of decisions are still up to the driver."

That was my dad's advice in general, really -- if it occurs to you that you might need to [send a thank-you note] [leave a tip] [wash that before you wear it again] [use a ladder instead of a rolling chair], then you probably should. (He also used to say, "When you can smell yourself, other people have been smelling you for three days.")

Other advice that I've found useful:

- Once I was saying, "I wonder if I should try to write or if I should go to the gym," and the spouse said, "Remember, you write with your cells."

- A project manager I used to work with said, "The object is to leave the meeting without the monkey."

- My first landlord told me (after I bounced a rent check) that it was a good idea, as soon as you wrote down your paycheck deposit in your checkbook, to immediately write out your rent check or other biggest check, even if it wasn't due for a while. I don't use checks any more, but I still set up my rent e-bill as soon as my mid-month paycheck comes in.

- My yoga therapist told me, "There is always exactly the right amount of time." I'm still struggling with that one; I see it like a distant hilltop that I hope to reach one day.

- In a similar vein, my 12th-grade algebra teacher told me, "Life is a matter of priorities."


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