Some of the best advice I’ve ever gotten. | by Zoë Olojede. | Sep, 2025
Day 17.
I’ve received all kinds of advice in my lifetime.
From family, friends, mentors, and even strangers (which includes media). Some of it has been wise, some incredibly useful, and some downright terrible. A few have been “profound,” while others were just so simple. I haven’t always followed them, as you might imagine, and that’s sometimes worked out for me… and other times, not so much.
Show your work.
As long as we’re in a global market, resources will always follow where value is going.
You’re not one thing.
Friends make us richer in more ways than one. And depending on who you place in your inner circle, your friends can (will) have an impact on your life.
Make the odds in your favour.
There are hardly any new ideas. Just new perspectives.
The fairytale version of “be yourself” is that all the pain stops as soon as you allow your distinctiveness to shine.
When all the lights go off and you are by yourself, do you really like the person you are? Or are you surrounding yourself with people and things that distract you from the truth that you are in fact empty on the inside?
People don’t always remember what you say to them, but they’ll never forget how you made them feel.
Happiness springs out of your sense of contribution.
Physical movement is a gamechanger. Take more walks.
Before you speak, ask: is it kind, true, necessary?
Be comfortable with being uncomfortable.
Always back up your files. Pictures, videos, notes and memories you want to preserve.
Learn something from everyone.
It’s always within your power to choose how you show up.
At the end of the storm, there’s a golden sky.
We’re creatures of habit, but we’re also social beings. We seek out currency all the time, if not directly, then indirectly.
If goodbyes weren’t hard, it would mean the time together hadn’t been worth it. Not advice per se, but it’s Jurgen Klopp and I just had to.
Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
For whoever is joined to the living, there is hope.
Release the need to take things personally.
Call your parents while you still can.
