Pathways To Eliminate Gossip (English Poetry)

Pathways  To Eliminate  Gossip

 Pathways  To Eliminate  Gossip

 Speak  No Evil. Say only  positive  statements,

Let  words of kindness be on your tongue.

This  means to respond instead of react,

Edit  your speech before you speak.

Hear No Evil.  Refuse  to listen  to gossip,

slander  and other  negative forms of speech.

If  you're  on  a diet, don't bring the cake and cookies  into the house,

If  you're  ending gossip try and  keep  away from

conversations that may tempt you  to listen,

or chime in, If avoiding  the conversation is  impossible  , have another  topic of "positive,

interest  you can quickly  bring up in order to

change  the subject.

See  No Evil. Judge  people favorably, the way you  would  want them to judge  you,

If  you've  ever been accused of doing something for  which you know you were innocent, than you know how it  feels to be misjudged...

Remember, if  you weren't  there  you don't know.

Even  if you were there  you may have missed

the context of  what actually happened.

 Don't Rationalize  Destructive Speech.

Excuses  like "But it's true" or I'm only joking

or  I can tell my spouse anything" just don't cut it.

Gossip is gossip, The fact that it is true  is what

qualifies it as gossip  if  it were not true,

it would  be libel or slander , depending upon

the medium.

Beware  of Speaking Evil Without Saying An Evil,

Word, Body language even with positive speech

can  bring tremendous  destruction.

Be Humble. Avoid  Arrogance. These will be your greatest  weapons against  destructive,

speech, Take pleasure  in your accomplishments,

not  pride, This  way you recognize the Ultimate,

Source of your accomplishments.

Those  who are arrogant  are full of themselves,

that  there is no room for God in their lives.

Beware  of Repeating Information.

needs  permission before being repeated , Telling

someone  who's  out of a job that your mutual friend got a raise does not constitute proper speech.

Honesty  Really is The Best Policy- Most of the Time.  Be careful to always tell the truth unless.

it  will hurt others or violate privacy, Strive for honesty in everything you do.

If  being honest  means unnecessarily hurting another's feeling, it's better not to be so truthful.

Those  who boast about being  brutally honest,

are  usually  more brutal  than honest.

Learn to Say , I'm Sorry, Everyone make mistakes, If  you've  spoken badly about someone clear it up immediately, It might be embarrassing

but get it over with quickly, Apologize  ask for

forgiveness and let him or her know it won't happen again.

Forgive. If you have been wronged  let it go

forgive for your sake, if not for theirs.

Those  who can forgive live healthier, happier,

and  less stressful  live...

Those  who say they'll forgive but not forget are

actually  saying that they'll neither forgive  nor

forget...

Have A  Great Week

Lucy