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Whenever you feel you are at rock bottom, climb
Best advice I got was with my 1st child “it’s not a rat race” Your baby won’t remember if you potty trained them at 18 months or 4 years. Let them guide you through THEIR development. And I rode on this with my second child. I was not stressed about hitting a millstone early on exactly at recommended time. Shit happens when it happens. My first child walked at 12 months and my second child walked at 16/17 months.
Everything Happens for a reason ( you hear it a lot but it’s so true)
“You can't control the waves, but you can learn to surf.” To me, this means that life will always bring challenges and uncertainties that are beyond our control, but what we can control is how we respond to them.
@Angel that is one of my favourite quotes. Jon Kabat-Zinn.
If you want to go sledding, you have to drag the toboggan up the hill. This is a loose translation of a Russian proverb. I think it can be applied to many situations. Basically you have to put in the work to reap the benefits, or you have to pay the price for your actions. If you go out for a night of drinking then that’s the sledding and the hangover is dragging the sled back up the hill. If you want to be an Olympic athlete, then all the training is dragging the sled up the hill and getting to ride down is competing/winning. It reminds me to always evaluate the trade off of my decisions. What sleds am I’m willing to drag and what hills are worth sliding down.
let go of expectations of others and focus on expectations of yourself. you will constantly be disappointed in others, but you can control disappointment in yourself to a degree - and also don’t go down the rabbit hole
Be yourself
@Ali what do you mean by the rabbit hole? In terms of getting fixated?
@D when I had to deal with my premature baby in the NICU, this was the advice that worked best. x
Poor obstacles will only impoverish you (Don't waste your energy on jerks)