Take My Word For It

Tonight the Orange Pot sits quietly.  On nights that I have a Norwex Party (because I don't get to cook for a living-shucks), the Orange Pot is left to do the other thing it's really good at-lookin' pretty.  Left overs tonight.  I don't especially care for left overs.  Not because they are not yummy, because they are, but because I really like to cook every night.  Left overs rob me of another opportunity to create.  So be it.  Luckily I have a TON of stuff swimming around in my head, not just cooking stuff.  Contrary to popular belief, some of it's actually useful and kinda cool at the same time.  I learned of a new quote today, it goes like this, "The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right." -Hannah Whitall Smith.  Perfectly Indifferent-crap, I'm thinking, "you asked for my advice, now take it already and be on your merry way knowing you made the right choice by coming to me."  Don't we have this drive to be the one with the right answer?  OK, I might be letting my guard down here and maybe I am the only one that feels this way, but sometimes I think like that.  When I read this quote today, it slapped me upside the head, it spoke to me.  I do love it and if I can work it into my thick skull my life will be a whole lot easier with a lot less frustration. Why do I get annoyed when someone asks for my advice and completely ignores it?  That's the beauty of free choice and who am I to rain on that parade.  After all, I am the queen of getting advice (whether I wanted it or not) and completely ignoring it-my mom can vouch for that.  The other part of that quote that spoke volumes is the "never persist in trying to set people right"-jeepers.  Do I do that?  Heck yeah.  I gotta work on that.  Sometimes when you are passionate about something, it seems like cramming it down someones throat, must be the right thing to do?  Where does it go so wrong, when it was meant so right?  Self improvement-oh yeah baby that's what I'm talkin' about.  As far as advice, I've got lots of it-just ask me, I'll tell you-and you better take it.  Oops.