I love being able to help friends out with my normal babbling and advice giving. I can’t help but come up with advice when I see a problem. It is great when this is helpful rather than annoying.

I appreciate them sharing their problem with me and being able to do something to help settle it. I present information and ideas. I don’t have an investment in them taking my advice. Or at least I try hard not to. My advice is about what I would do in their shoes and based on my experiences. The problem isn’t mine. Sometimes I give a couple of advice ideas that are contrary to each other just to present different points of view in case one fits better than another.

Hopefully for them, figuring out what they feel about my advice will give them a good idea what they want to do. It is their job to listen and interact with me and then choose what they will do.

My advice is worth what you pay for it, nothing. It is up to the receiver to weight it and give value to it.

I will admit I do get disgustingly delighted when I am told someone followed my advise and things worked out great. I also enjoy it when I am told that my advice made them think of things in a different way and they did something completely different and it worked out.