Miki’s rules to Live By: Mastering Your Spoken Word
by Miki Saxon
Words are incredibly powerful.
If you’ve ever doubted that the recent election is absolute proof.
Words reflect who you are.
Words can bring people together or drive them apart.
Words can wound or empathize; they can build or destroy.
You are the only person responsible for your words, there is no way to pass the blame for things you say — or don’t say.
Knowing that, I kept these Anon quotes foremost in my mind, until they became unconscious habit.
The first
Be quicker of mind than of tongue.
leads directly to the second
I am the master of my unspoken words and a slave to those that should have remained unspoken.
There is a third, that is far less eloquent, but sums things up nicely.
Be sure to start brain before putting mouth in gear.
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