Sucking it up and practising what you preach

Taking your advice is hard. Trying to learn from someone else's mistakes is not easy. But taking your own advice seems harder somehow. Revisiting advice that you have given others or facing the fact that you may have to listen to the stuff you self-righteously and perhaps even smugly told someone is now applicable to you. I mean now I am faced with that situation it seems a bitter pill to swallow, humbling- it involves swallowing a lot of pride. But sometimes sucking it up is all you can do. Sometimes it's all you need to do. Looking at the advice you give others it is mostly, well meaning, in their best interests (at least, according to you) and has perspective they cannot see. Perhaps this is just what I need.