The Best Advice From Your Father
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The Best Advice from Your Father
In honor of Father’s Day, I asked over 1 million readers a simple question:
What was the single best piece of advice you ever received from your father?
I got thousands of replies, which ranged from playful and witty to thought-provoking and emotional.
Here were my favorites…
Consistency is everything. You can never bet against a person who just keeps showing up.
If you don’t do the small things well, they’ll never trust you to do the big things. Remember that. Everything you do matters—act accordingly.
Put good things between you and the earth. Buy a good bed, boots, and tires.
Your actions speak so loudly, I cannot hear what you are saying.
A situation with no way out is a situation in which you don't like the obvious way out.
Don't think about it, just start doing it. The more you think about it, the more reasons you'll give yourself to not do it.
Walk like you have 3000 ancestors behind you. Because you do.
Treat rockstars like regular people and regular people like rockstars.
You can always choose to be a victim or a victor, but you can never be both.
Going into debt to buy something to impress others is something only dumb insecure people do.
When wealth is gone, you've lost nothing. When health is gone, you've lost something. When character is gone, you've lost everything.
What matters is how you show up. Whatever role you're in, own it. Be the best at it. Pride, effort, and excellence aren't tied to a job title, they're a mindset.
There are always more options than you realize and things are never as bad as they seem.
Your reputation is the only thing that will follow you throughout your entire life.
Life gets a lot easier when you just accept that life isn’t always fair.
You don’t get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.
If you present a problem, present a solution. Many people are really great at finding problems. Few are good at finding the problem and the solution.
Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.
Don’t give people having a bad day the power to ruin your day.
You don’t have to be the loudest in the room. Just be the one everyone listens to when it goes quiet.
There you have it: 20 pieces of short, concise wisdom for a life well lived.
Happy Father’s Day!
