think before speaking

Very very much worth it! I’ve always done this. But then, having a bit of spontaneous-ness can be good as well. :P

I always speak before I think. It is a hard thing to do break. I have done it but only for like a week or so, how can I do it all the time? I find that I do this too when I am angry or upset and I don’t want someone to bitch at about things. Does this get easier?

90% of the time b4 i speak i think. I completed this goal. I used to be so horrible at that :-)

I’m getting very good at this.. Next time I think before I speak.. I completed this goal!

Today I remembered not to say hints that I was with my boyfriend. My dad knew:-) But he doesn’t want my evil step mom to know! hehe… I passed that test!

How do I control what I say? I always end up saying the wrong things and making people mad..

43things.com is a unique website where people post things they want to do, and goals they want to accoomplish. Supposedly, from what I could glean from the intro to the site, each registered member has 43 slots to fill with things they want to do. Each thing somebody wants to do has its own page, so when you enter the thing you want to do, it searches to see if there are other people who want to do the same thing. It shows you the list of people who wnat to do that thing, allows you to add yourself to the list, and adds that thing to your list of things you want to do. There are also comments on that thing below—-a sort of discussion.

I discovered this site when I Googled the foolowing phrase “How do I stop myself from doing things?” I was looking for general advice on how to “train” myself. Getting into the habit of doing things seems more straight forward. It’s breaking habits that seems more difficult. I was looking for general advice, but really had one particular bad habit in mind—-speaking without thinking first. Just saying the first thing that came to mind.

I searched for it, and there are 9 people who want to “think before speaking,” and 7 people who want to “Think then speak,” or something along those lines. After I spent a few minutes looking around if there was a way to combine these two topics into the one topic they were obviously meant to be, I moved on and began reading about the site, and exploring a little. I registered and set up my account.

Finally, I settled down into the the first thing I want to do, and began writing this post. I eventually learned that I could simultaneously post it to my blog. So I set up my blog and that’s wnat I’m doing now. But I digress. Back to the bad habit of not thinking before I speak.

This happens most when I’m angry. I’m going to try waiting some amount of time before responding. Don’t know how long that should be. Also, having somebody to bitch to about it helps bide the time.

i just follow my intuition now.. i dont always “think” real hard about what i’m saying, but i am more aware before i let myself speak, and i am mostly confident about what i say

And i feel like sometimes the words just spill out of my mouth, and then i regret saying them.. ‘cause they aren’t what i really feel, they are just what my brain is programmed…
I want to talk less.. waste less words…