talk less

I guess I will focus on this again. Another benefit: it is a great way to keep people out of your personal business. Everyone seems happy to talk about themselves while I just smile and nod.

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This is going great. Very benificial. I think I am talking at least 30-40-% less than before. But my communication has improved. Most of my talk was blather. Still improving on this one.

This is what I actually want to do.

Someone said an annoying thing to me that was pretty long winded so I had alot of time to think and remember my goal to TALK LESS. So I cleverly picked a pleasant thing to say that was very short and said it when it was my turn to talk. It worked out beautifully. Not speaking my mind makes me kind of cranky, so I am trying to deal with that silently as well. So you could say I am seething silently and secretly, which is not really what I had in mind with this goal, but it’s just my first day so I call it progress.

Here is the basic goal: never say any mean thing or hurtful thing or rude thing or disrespectful thing or crass thing, just skip it. All other talking is fine even if its silly talk at least for now because Rome wasn’t built in a day.