This One Piece Of Advice Changed My Life (And It Will Make You Happier Too)

Life isn’t easy, and it’s natural for us to turn to our loved ones for advice when we don’t know what to do and need help. There’s no scarcity of columns in the world offering helpful tips to make your life better regarding any aspect of your life, whether it’s how to fix the sink to how to choose a life partner. That being said, many people offer advice when we don’t even ask for it, and not all advice is helpful; some might actually make us feel worse.

Early on, I learned that the quality of advice depends on the person giving it and their life experiences or situations. In my younger days, I would turn to my friends at life’s slightest inconveniences. For example, I would tell my single friend, “My partner isn’t doing the dishes or helping with cleaning the house.” And she would say, “You need to leave him. You deserve so much better.” That seems quite drastic, but then I came across this advice online that said, “Don’t take relationship advice from single people,” and it is so true. Similarly, if you’re in a relationship, you can’t go to your friends who are also in relationships to ask them why being single is so great.

But that’s not the best advice I got in my life though it is among the more helpful ones. The best advice I got that changed the quality of my life was “Don’t take…