Queue commercial monologue voice over:
" Are you always the "nice" person in every group you're in? Do you have trouble saying no to people? When someone asks you how you are do you only have "OK" or "good, HRU" as an answer? Well then you might be faking it. No I'm not talking about faking the big O, I'm talking about being disingenuous with people. No one should matter more to you than you, until you have kids who will absorb your entire life. Time is short here and do you really have time to fake social interactions to navigate the social ebbs and flows of life?
What do you do about it.... THIS, for a special discount today we're offering you your very own....mute button!
That's right Be completely oblivious to insistent people, by completely ignoring what they say. What do you do when they get irate about you ignoring them, ignore them some more!
Comes with 1 free spine"
That's right, when someone really wants to talk to you about something, they do it calmly and rationally. I'd try ignoring them, waiting for their reaction that you're not listening to them, and come at you calmly. I'd start that conversation with, "I ignored you because you really didn't have anything to say that was important to me, see I'm..... and you want me to .... and I could do .... if ..... because that's how interactions work"
The twice ignore has worked for me on several occasions, plus if comes with the inherent knowledge that anytime it gets to be too emotionally heated, they know you'll just tune out.
" Are you always the "nice" person in every group you're in? Do you have trouble saying no to people? When someone asks you how you are do you only have "OK" or "good, HRU" as an answer? Well then you might be faking it. No I'm not talking about faking the big O, I'm talking about being disingenuous with people. No one should matter more to you than you, until you have kids who will absorb your entire life. Time is short here and do you really have time to fake social interactions to navigate the social ebbs and flows of life?
What do you do about it.... THIS, for a special discount today we're offering you your very own....mute button!
That's right Be completely oblivious to insistent people, by completely ignoring what they say. What do you do when they get irate about you ignoring them, ignore them some more!
Comes with 1 free spine"
That's right, when someone really wants to talk to you about something, they do it calmly and rationally. I'd try ignoring them, waiting for their reaction that you're not listening to them, and come at you calmly. I'd start that conversation with, "I ignored you because you really didn't have anything to say that was important to me, see I'm..... and you want me to .... and I could do .... if ..... because that's how interactions work"
The twice ignore has worked for me on several occasions, plus if comes with the inherent knowledge that anytime it gets to be too emotionally heated, they know you'll just tune out.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
