When a person assumes they have superior wisdom, they will offer you their advice. This is an unmistakable sign they think you are an idiot.

I smile when a person says to me, “Can I offer you some friendly advice?” They instinctively use the word “friendly” as a qualifier because, deep in their guts, they know what they are about to say isn’t friendly at all. They want to give me their critique, their criticism, their evaluation.

Still smiling, I shake my head and say “No.”

Unsolicited advice is the junk mail of life.

You don’t need advice. You need encouragement.

Not flattery. Encouragement.

You can do the thing you would like to do.

Of course you can.

You can become the thing you want to become.

Of course you can.

You can achieve the thing you hope to achieve.

Of course you can.

I don’t know how long it will take, or what you will have to endure, but I do know that you can do these things if you decide to. The only enemy you cannot outwit or outwait is death.

You were created in the image of God.

He does not think you are an idiot.

And neither do I.

Roy H. Williams