Hi Sky Dancers!
I'm thinking about what makes something good advice.
My wife’s grandmother had a great piece of advice she would dispense anytime someone was worried about something that might or might not happen. She would say, “Don’t trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.”
As someone with a congenital propensity for overthinking, I love this saying. It has become a kind of mantra for me.
I’m working on my next book, The Totally Inadequate Guide to Adulting. This book is at its core, an advice book. It’s advice for how to live a content life, told through haiku comics. This is something I have no business doing, but feel compelled to do it as my children are growing up and my oldest will start college in the fall. I like to say I’m creating the book for my children, but the truth is this is a book for me. It’s full of advice I needed when I was younger or that I still need now.
But as I get closer to finishing it, I keep circling back to the question what makes something a good piece of advice?
What do you think? How do you tell the difference between bad advice and good advice?
Be the poetry you want to see in the world!
Cheers,
Jason
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