speak well of others or not speak of them at all

This has also become such an ingrained habit that I’m marking it as ‘done’. I feel real icky when I start to gossip, and honestly I also don’t have the time or energy to comment on anyone else but me.

I have a substitute teacher for the next two weeks whom I suspect is really going to test me on this goal…she berated the entire class for being second-rate students, then kept screwing up what she was doing, all within the first half-hour of meeting us. We were expected to be perfect, to know every answer from chapters we haven’t even covered yet, and were continually told about our shortcomings, while her mistakes were just amusing and easily overlooked. Complete double standard, and two students were almost in tears. This makes me upset cause this is a tech school, and a lot of these students don’t have anything else to compare it too, to know that most post-secondary professors are pretty nice. Many of these students seem suffer from low-self-esteem anyway (learning a trade after failed marriages and such, single moms rebuilding their lives). They just might believe her and blame themselves. Grrr.

So I’m praying for her and trying to keep my mouth shut and working hard at my studies.

I realize I am better with this except in conversations with Hubby Je.

Duly noted and working on correction…

I have really knocked down the gossip, so I marked that as complete here. So now I am going to consciously speak well of others or not speak of them at all. I think this will tie right into me Do the Secret goal here, as I believe words are powerful and manifest in my life.

In the past few weeks I’ve noticed that when people mention other people that I don’t particularly care for, I’ve held my tongue instead of say anything negative about them. I felt really good about it too. I’m going to keep trying my hardest to do that.

I try to do this but I need to do better.