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Three Questions To Eliminate All Unnecessary Arguments [Personal Development]

Growing Up

Watch how I'm gonna tiptoe and trick her...

I may or may not have been called ‘argumentative’ in the past. I may or may not have engaged in a Twitter rant or two. I may or may not have been threatened to be stabbed up with a scissors for Twitter ‘trolling’ taken too far…but I digress.

The point is, even though all these things happen at some point in our lives, it doesn’t mean it has to define us or be ‘our way’ forever. There comes a point where you must grow. Witness actions by others, find role models and emulate their behaviour to develop into the true mature respectful adult you. This time will not take seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months or years. (Yay, word count!)

Instead, it is an ongoing process that never stops. If you mean to become the best you can be, you never stop learning and changing and adopting new practices. So with that said, here is one of my new practices…I’m going to start a new trend of thinking about everything. Instead of jumping to say everything that comes to mind when I disagree with someone, I will ask myself a few questions first…

1- Is it going to directly affect me and my life?
2- Will voicing my opinion change anything?
3- Am I calm & will I respond rationally?

 

Only if the answers to all three of those questions are yes will I respond. If not, then I will leave it alone. Simple.

 

I have come to realize that whenever the answer to one or all of those questions is no, then people often tend to misinterpret my well-meaning response or the end of the conversation just doesn’t tend to settle well with me. That is, it’s quite pointless and a  perfect waste of tweets, typing, breathe and brain power.

 

Feel free to share your opinion on this below…
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4 comments on “Three Questions To Eliminate All Unnecessary Arguments [Personal Development]

  1. A good way to learn/grow……

  2. Great questions to ask before we respond. There have been times I wished I would have zipped it, locked it, and put it in my pocket.

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