Don't Sweat The Small Stuff Flashcards
Those who learned to listen are the most loved and respected. Those who are in the habit of interrupting others are often resented and avoided.
Without patience life is extremely frustrating.
Your intention to be patient, especially if you know it’s only for a short while, immediately strengthens your capacity for patience. Patience is one of those special qualities that success feeds on itself.
Pity is a self-defeating emotion that does nothing for anyone, except to make everyone feel worse than they already do.
You will notice how nice and grateful people can be when you are the first one to reach out.
Set a side some quiet time every day.
Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It’s being content to listen to the inter-thought of someone rather than waiting in patiently for your chance to respond. In some ways the way we feel to listen as symbolic of the way we live. We often treat communication as if it were a race. It is almost like our goal is to have no time gaps between the conclusion of the sentence of the person we are speaking with in the beginning of her own.
My wife and I were recently at a café having lunch eavesdropping on a conversation surround us. It seemed that no one was really listening to another instead they were taking turns not listening to one another.
Slowing down your responses and becoming a better listener and becoming a more peaceful person it takes pressure from you. If you think about it you will notice it takes a large amount of energy and is very stressful to be sitting at the edge of your seat trying to guess what the person in front of you is going to say so that you can fire back with your response. This reminds me of sister Verona.
Here is a good prescription to be stress-free.
A peaceful way to live is to decide consciously which battles are worth fighting and which are better left alone. If your primary goal is not to have everything work out perfectly but instead to live in a relatively stress-free life, you will find that most battles pull you away from your most tranquil feelings.
Is it really important that you proved to your spouse that you are right and that she is wrong, or that you confront someone simply because it appears as though he or she has made a minor mistake?
It has become far more acceptable for me to accept things as they are.
If you put someone down, you will notice that you feel worse than before you put them down.
Each time you resist being right and instead choose kindness, you will notice a peaceful feeling within.
