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THINK

As everyone who knows me is well aware, I tend to blurt out whatever comes to mind with very little in the way of filtering. This can be embarrassing and hurtful and is pretty lame in general. Granted, I can be pretty entertaining as well, often I keep people laughing and nodding at my wit and wisdom. OK, actually it's my biting sarcasm and flaming insults and deep cynicism and skepticism of, pretty much everything.

So I'm trying, again, to improve on this speech thing. There is a quote I've heard by Sri Sathya Sai Baba, an Indian guru type, “Before you speak, think -Is it necessary? Is it true? Is it kind? Will it hurt anyone? Will it improve on the silence?” I was playing around with this trying to make it stick in my head and I decided to change the order because I didn't think he had things prioritized correctly for me.

Before you speak, Think:
1. Is it True?
2. Is it Kind?
3. Will it hurt anyone?
4. Is it necessary?
5. Will it improve on the silence?

Then I thought, maybe assign one letter to each of the five items...

T(rue) K(ind) H(urt) N(ecessary) I(mprove) wait a minute, those are the five letters in the word THINK!

TRUE
HURT
IMPROVE
NECESSARY
KIND

Hey, an Acronym… T H I N K ! Hah hah! OK, I made it easy to remember, now all I need to do is make it a habit. Lord help me.

Posted via email from The Angry Gnome

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