It is so easy to offer advice, especially the unsolicited one that everyone is ready for. Do you want to motivate someone? You google “quotes about motivation,” you choose the one, which sounds right to your ears, and forward it to your friend.

However, you must understand that while offering advice is as easy as Googling anything, especially when you have buytvinternetphone offering high-speed internet. However, the following advice is not. Rather your attempt to motivate may backfire badly as all those popular quotes don’t have one size that fits all.

 So before you follow or offer a counsel, make sure you read this.

1.  Never Give Up

It may sound like a piece of meaningful advice to your ears and provide you a spectacular drive to persist with your venture. However, it’s always not plausible and feasible to persist. There are times in life when giving up is more fruitful than continuously banging your head on the wall. In the end, it’s your skull that is going to hurt.

We’re not telling you to quit in its entirety, just follow the advice more sensibly. For instance, you could take a sledgehammer and break through the brick wall.

Sure, it’s not easy to give up something you have given your blood, sweat and considerable time to, but it is essential to give up on something that is going to lead you nowhere and consume all your energy.

Taking feedback from your friends, family, and peers could help because they may highlight a different perspective of the situation, which you had never considered before. Quit, but don’t quit trying something new and different.

• Follow Your Passion

How clichéd is this advice, yet people will dish it out for free (because they don’t have anything meaningful to say)?

“Find your passion and you don’t have to work a day in your life,” they said. But if you look closely at the real world, how many people have followed their passion and failed?

Sure, there have been many instances when people followed their passion and succeeded, but it’s a very small ratio. This successful lot had their fair share of setbacks and criticism too. But it worked out with perseverance and of course, favorable circumstances.

We share success stories of this minority, but what about the majority who were not as lucky. The purpose is not to demotivate you, rather nudge you towards pragmatism.

Your passion does matter, but you need to remove those rose-tinted specs that say, “All will be well if you follow your passion.” Look at the world, see what are the available opportunities out there, who are your competitors, what resources are available to you, and lastly, plan your goal around these realistic details. And be prepared for some setbacks.

• You Are Perfect Just the Way You Are

Someone told you that you have a certain flaw you need to work towards, you might end up feeling defensive, hurt and self-conscious. Then you speak to your loved one about what the other person said and you will surely hear your friend say, “You are perfect just the way you are.”

Your friend loves you immensely, but this is not sound advice. The nitpicker, who pointed out your flaw, could be correct, even though the way they did it may have hurt your feelings.

Better advice would be to get past that hurt and look at yourself from an objective perspective, and to remember that you are human, hence imperfect. Everyone is an ongoing work in progress; to learn to make progress one has to accept criticism. Unless that person highlighted your weight or your appearance, take their feedback seriously.

• Good Things Only Come To Those Who Wait

Reality Check: They don’t, even if they do, they’re going to come to a lot later at a time when you don’t value it any longer. You’ll get it and you are going to be like, ‘I once wanted this badly, now I have it, I don’t.’

You’ll only find a teeny-tiny bit of satisfaction.

For achieving something in life and feeling the rush of satisfaction that makes you feel whole, you need to get on the ground and work towards it. Sure, patience is required even then, but you’re steadily moving towards your goal, not whiling away.

Bringing it All Together

You may have received blatantly worse pieces of advice in your life such as improve your complexion, loosen your weight (unless it’s your doctor), life will be complete with kids, your career does not have any future, etc. Any sane mind will not give those bits of advice a second thought. However, the aforementioned are particularly treacherous ones, they may sound sensible, but it’s important to deep dive into them via a realistic lens.