Reserve your harshest judgment. Sit on your worst thoughts about other people and consider the consequences before expressing them.
Amy Dickinson – has offered advice on her syndicated column, ASK AMY for more than two decades. She is leaving this seven-day-a-week commitment – because she want to. This is one of several pieces of “final advice” she shares.
REFLECTION:
- As humans, we all hold judgments. Is there someone you have a harsh judgment towards now?
- Have you shared this harsh judgments with another (gossip/water cooler conversations)?
- Have you expressed harsh judgment toward that person directly? Were they receptive or did it “put another brick in the wall?”
- With a judgment you are currently holding, can you think about the consequences of sharing your judgments and its impact on that person before speaking it?
- Can you bite your tongue and keep it to yourself?