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7 important life lessons every girl should know

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7 important life lessons every girl should know

Growing up in today’s world is far more complicated than it has ever been before.

The pressures to conform to what everyone else expects a young lady to be and to look like have never been so great, and the difficulties of balancing career with home life have never been tougher.

So if you want to make the most of your life and be happy, listed below are seven important life lessons every girl should know.

1. MANNERS COST YOU NOTHING: Some of the best advice is the oldest in the world and remembering to say please and thank you will get you a lot farther than you think. However busy you are or however much you have on your mind, never forget how common courtesy and respect for other people makes the difference between a real young lady and just another rude and thoughtless person.

2. JEALOUSY WILL GET YOU NOWHERE: Whether it’s you being jealous of a colleague at work, being jealous of a sibling, or being an over possessive girlfriend, jealousy will never achieve anything it will only eat you up and make you bitter. If someone succeeds where you have failed, congratulate them and wish them all the best. Focus all your energy on being the best person that you can be and not on worrying so much about what other people are doing.

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3. YOU CAN ARGUE WITHOUT HURTING: Learning how to fight fair is one of the important life lessons that will gain you a great deal of respect. You don’t need to be spiteful or hurtful to get your point across of view across and you don’t even have to win every argument. If you lose your temper in an argument and you say something really unpleasant, you will lose other people’s respect and you might say something that you might regret later.

4. WHEN YOU KNOW IT IS WRONG: Don’t cave in to peer-pressure when you know that it would be wrong to do so. Just because friends are taking drugs, or drinking to excess, that doesn’t mean that you have to. There is nothing ladylike about the effects of drugs and alcohol, so steer clear of doing things that you know in your heart you will regret.

5. KNOW HOW TO APOLOGISE: Knowing when and how to apologise is another sign of a wise young lady. You won’t be right all the time and you will make mistakes, but so long as you are prepared to admit it when you wrong and say sorry, those errors of judgement won’t hold you back and you will always be able to heal the wounds that you may have caused to people who you care about.

6. KNOW HOW TO DRESS APPROPRIATELY: We all have the right to be individual and to dress however we like, but don’t let the way that you dress be something that offends other people or casts you in a bad light. Like it or not, people do judge you on the way that you dress and there are certain situations where how you dress will affect how people treat you and how well you get on in life.

7. LISTEN AS OFTEN AS YOU TALK: It’s just as important to listen to what people are saying, as it is to get your own voice heard, so pause for breath occasionally, and take in what other people are saying. You may not always agree with what other people say, but they may have things to teach you. Hogging a conversation and making it one sided is rude and extremely tiresome, so let other people get a word in too.

 

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