Best advice you received in 2025?

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    The NYT asked readers for the best advice they received in 2025. Here are some of their answers.

    The best advice you received


    • Before your kids go to college, find something you are passionate about other than work. — Sandra Beaulieu, Bellevue, Wash.
    • You don’t need to tell everyone everything that goes into making the chicken soup. — Hannah Schoff, New York City
    • Don’t think harder, breathe deeper. Most of us are surviving on shallow sips of air. — Carly Sotas, Los Angeles
    • Never second-guess going to a funeral. — Kathy Nechanicky, Lakeville, Minn.
    • It’ll be fine or it’ll be over. — Nathalie Cunningham, Tacoma, Washington
    • Write what’s bothering you down on a piece of paper; put it in a little box. A year later, read what’s in there and see if you don’t start laughing. — Diane Huebner, Merced, Calif.
    • “Wear the ring.” — A jeweler who cleaned a family heirloom I’d kept in a box for 50 years for fear of losing it. — Arline Sirkus, New York City
    • Best advice for decluttering: If you didn’t own it, would you buy it again? — Margaret Roberts, Kodiak, Alaska
    • Stop trying to calm the storm. Calm yourself, the storm will pass. — Lyn Banghart, Easton, Md.
    • Go outside first thing in the morning before you do anything else. — Carrie Swift Heck, Lee, Mass.
    • Your job needs to leave you enough time to go for walks with your old dog. — Gillian Williams, Madrid, Spain
    • Don’t make what someone told you into your narrative. — Jean Anderson, Winter Garden, Fla.
    • When going on a trip, ask yourself: Are you going to see places or show yourself? Then pack accordingly. — Marina Selcuk, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
    • Always have a bottle of Champagne chilling in the fridge. — Helen Labun, Montpelier, Vt.
    • In order to fall asleep, you pretend to fall asleep. Perhaps that’s how everything works … cheers to faking it ’til you make it. — Christen Bakken, Pine, Colo.
    • Anxiety is not intuition. — Kaylee Davis, Fuquay Varina, N.C.
    • When your 100-pound German shepherd takes off after a squirrel, drop the leash so you don’t end up with a broken arm. — Cherie Walker, Pickens, S.C.
    • From a fellow vegetarian: Don’t bother ordering the sad, token meatless item on the menu when they drag you to a steakhouse. Just get dessert, and relish it. — Emily Wasserman, Portland, Oregon
    • Put away your phone whenever there is a human being in front of you. — Emily Herrick, Vashon, Wash.


    What is the best advice YOU received?

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    The NYT asked readers for the best advice they received in 2025. Here are some of their answers.

    The best advice you received


    • Before your kids go to college, find something you are passionate about other than work. — Sandra Beaulieu, Bellevue, Wash.
    • You don’t need to tell everyone everything that goes into making the chicken soup. — Hannah Schoff, New York City
    • Don’t think harder, breathe deeper. Most of us are surviving on shallow sips of air. — Carly Sotas, Los Angeles
    • Never second-guess going to a funeral. — Kathy Nechanicky, Lakeville, Minn.
    • It’ll be fine or it’ll be over. — Nathalie Cunningham, Tacoma, Washington
    • Write what’s bothering you down on a piece of paper; put it in a little box. A year later, read what’s in there and see if you don’t start laughing. — Diane Huebner, Merced, Calif.
    • “Wear the ring.” — A jeweler who cleaned a family heirloom I’d kept in a box for 50 years for fear of losing it. — Arline Sirkus, New York City
    • Best advice for decluttering: If you didn’t own it, would you buy it again? — Margaret Roberts, Kodiak, Alaska
    • Stop trying to calm the storm. Calm yourself, the storm will pass. — Lyn Banghart, Easton, Md.
    • Go outside first thing in the morning before you do anything else. — Carrie Swift Heck, Lee, Mass.
    • Your job needs to leave you enough time to go for walks with your old dog. — Gillian Williams, Madrid, Spain
    • Don’t make what someone told you into your narrative. — Jean Anderson, Winter Garden, Fla.
    • When going on a trip, ask yourself: Are you going to see places or show yourself? Then pack accordingly. — Marina Selcuk, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
    • Always have a bottle of Champagne chilling in the fridge. — Helen Labun, Montpelier, Vt.
    • In order to fall asleep, you pretend to fall asleep. Perhaps that’s how everything works … cheers to faking it ’til you make it. — Christen Bakken, Pine, Colo.
    • Anxiety is not intuition. — Kaylee Davis, Fuquay Varina, N.C.
    • When your 100-pound German shepherd takes off after a squirrel, drop the leash so you don’t end up with a broken arm. — Cherie Walker, Pickens, S.C.
    • From a fellow vegetarian: Don’t bother ordering the sad, token meatless item on the menu when they drag you to a steakhouse. Just get dessert, and relish it. — Emily Wasserman, Portland, Oregon
    • Put away your phone whenever there is a human being in front of you. — Emily Herrick, Vashon, Wash.


    What is the best advice YOU received?

    "Put away your phone whenever there is a human being in front of you."

    I really agree with this one: Go outside first thing in the morning before you do anything else. — Carrie Swift Heck, Lee, Mass.

    I love to have my mate or coffee on the terrace in the morning. That's where I spend the first hour of the day when the weather allows it. I got so used to it, that in winter I wear my jacket and sit outside anyway.

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    I love to have my mate or coffee on the terrace in the morning. That's where I spend the first hour of the day when the weather allows it. I got so used to it, that in winter I wear my jacket and sit outside anyway.

    In summer there's always something flying or crawling about that wants to bite or sting me so I prefer to stay inside with my morning coffee..