Practice what you preach!

From time immemorial, the easiest freely available thing in the world, would probably be Advise. Everybody seems to relish giving advise to everybody. The flow of advise is all pervasive. It is not partial to any caste, creed, sex, religion or any other demographic characteristics. It is free and abundant. 

I sincerely don't have any major aversion to people giving advises but then the advises should be such which the preachers of them too should be following. Examples of not practicing what one is preaching is galore in our day to day life. In the international arena, countries that are at the forefront of wars in certain part of world double up as messengers of peace in another. A country which expects other countries not to interfere in its internal matters, in turn shamelessly tries to intervene in the internal matters of another sovereign country citing its national political compulsions. At the national level, politicians that clamor the most for tough anti-corruption laws, anti-rape laws and the like, are usually the ones who try to dilute tough legislation at the time of enacting of the law. Regional Satraps who show themselves as the messiahs of the poor are usually the ones who exploit them the most. While a politician might be apt at giving great speeches about the development of the nation, the matter of fact is, he seldom sees beyond his own vote bank and his local level politics.

Even in our immediate surroundings, we routinely encounter people in our homes, social gatherings and offices, who preach great things but are just the opposite in their own lives. If religious saints preach about the benefits of austerity then they have no business in flaunting the riches that they have acquired in the name of religion. If an elder preaches about the benefits of leading a disciplined life, then he has no business in indulging in excesses be it related to food, drink or liefestyle. Similarly, if a person in a top position in a company expects others to subordinate their own self interests to the greater interest of the company, then he has no business to have expectations that his own self interests would be served by others in the company.