self improvement

Today's lesson runs thus:

I must think harder about the information that people actually need when I'm speaking to them.

This is mostly required in business type exchanges. So for instance this morning when I rang the garage, they didn't need to know that I had read the opening time last nite as 8am but was ringing in the hope that they actually opened earlier. They especially didn't need that information in the garbled state in which it was delivered.

I'm guilty of this quite a lot you know. It comes from not wanting people to misunderstand me. I often find that when watching films/programmes I think that characters should be explaining themselves more. Then I realise they really don't need to.

Another classic example is phoning up ill for work. All you really need to say is, "Hi, I'm not able to come in today because I'm ill." Simple really.

That's it today. No humour. No picture. Just insights a-go-go.

overandout

still tiny minded thoughts I think

It's weird that no matter what else is going on in your life you will still find stupid thoughts encroaching upon you.

Like:

"sometimes in the morning, getting dressed stalls at socks. Like, I'll be all dressed apart from socks, but that will be too much and I'll have to go and do something else like make a cup of tea. Then I'll look at the socks and think, I'll just brush my teeth. And so on. It's weird that."

or

"When you have an electric toothbrush with a timer, it makes you better with a normal toothbrush if you have to use one for some reason like you're on holiday or you've forgotten to charge the electric toothbrush again. Because before you just used to brush all over your mouth like it's r-r-random but now you do a big stretch of time - maybe even 30 seconds but probably not exactly because that would be well impressive - on each quadrant of your mouth. So that's good because it means even when you're not getting the goodness delivered by the rapidly oscillating head you're getting benefits."

Not that there's anything particularly big going on in my life right now.

It's just I had these thoughts and I, you know, thought that you might be interested.

I can see now I was wrong.