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“Whew, there I go again,” and consciously nip it in the bud. You stop your train of thought before it has a chance to get going.
Remind yourself (before a conversation begins, if possible) to be patient and wait. Tell yourself to allow the other person to finish speaking before you take your turn.
The next time someone tells you a story or shares an accomplishment with you, notice your tendency to say something about yourself in response.
Imagine that Everyone Is Enlightened
Being listened to and heard is one of the greatest desires of the human heart. And those who learn to listen are the most loved and respected.
Be the First One to Act Loving or Reach Out
The way to be happy is to let go,
“This too shall pass.”
It all starts with your decision to do one thing at a time.
Very simply, we want things to be a certain way but they’re not a certain way. Life is simply as it is. Perhaps Benjamin Franklin said it best: “Our limited perspective, our hopes and fears become our measure of life, and when circumstances don’t fit our ideas, they become our difficulties.” We spend our lives wanting things, people, and events to be just as we want them to be—and when they’re not, we fight and we suffer.
How often have you said to yourself, after the fact, “I knew I should have done that”? How often do you intuitively know something but allow yourself to think yourself out of it?
