How Prone To gossip Are You?

My early Sunday morning reading lead me to the information I am about to share with you today. It is an excerpt from a book called The Magic Of Thinking Big written by David J. Schwartz, which I highly recommend if:

• You want to learn to believe in yourself
• You want to develop the Action habit
• You want to build confidence and destroy fear
• You want to think and dream creatively
• You want to turn defeat into victory
• You want to think like a leader

Cutting a long story short the chapter I was reading this morning was on how to manage your environment, precisely how to avoid Thought Poison. I will leave the concept of thought poison for another day and just focus on "The Gossip Test".

OK do not get me wrong here, I am not saying all conversations is indeed gossip. Shop talk, the occasional rant are necessary at times and even better when they are constructive. Below are the questions to the gossip proneness test, tell me how you do by posting some comments when you have taken the test:

1. Do I spread rumors about other people?
2. Do I enjoy hearing reports about a scandal?
3. Do I always have a good word to say about others?
4. Do I encourage others to bring their rumors to me? Am I rumor receptive?
5. Do I judge others based solely on facts?
6. Do I keep confidential information, well, confidential?
7. Do I precede my conversations with "Don't tell anybody"?
8. Do I feel guilty about what I say concerning other people?

Just consider this for a moment; Taking a hammer and bashing your neighbor's shiny new car to a pulp is not going to make your car look one bit better. Rather spend your time studying what your neighbor is doing right to be able to afford such a nice car.

Think about these questions next time someone comes to you with some "hot gossip" and make sure you keep yourself safe from "Thought Poison".

Read, Enjoy and share, until next time Peace and Love.