I've struggled a little with this one, has taken me two days to write it. Well, I have been having the time of my life with my family and friends up in Joburg, so that kinda set me back a little. But I've struggled with this rule cause the past four or so years, I have been on the receiving end of the answer "it depends" and I'll tell you something, its not a nice answer. It's not what you want to hear. As the person delivering the question it's perfect. It buys you time, four years in this case. My advise on this rule is, if someone says, "it depends" walk away, in fact run!
Okay, rules are back and what a classic one! This quote is by Harry S Truman. He was the 33 rd president of America, historians call him “a controversial president”, the band Chicago wrote a song just for him and he has a commemorative holiday in his name on the 8 th May in Missouri. This is brilliant advise, not in the literal sense, well, that too, but if you having a seriously bad day, don’t make things worse by deliberately doing something that will bite you in the bum later. I did this the other day, so I am talking out of experience here. I went into a situation and then on the way out, after realising it was a bad situation, I kicked a fresh turd cause I was so mad. (again, not literally, although, that might have been a better idea in hindsight) My advise in this circumstance is to stay indoors that day until you have calmed yourself down. I’ll leave you with another quote from Truman : A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who ...
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