How to be low-maintenance.
Join me as I continue my journey toward being a low-maintenance person:
- Take care of yourself as best as you are able. If possible, pay your own way. Live in your own head, but more important, get out of the heads of others. Others want — or don’t — want to do their own thinking.
- Offer information as needed and only to those who need it. Listen to yourself. Filter content. Negative talk about others reveals nothing about others but everything about you.
- Delete “you should, – ought, – must,” from your vocabulary even if you do think you know better or are more experienced.
- Take others at their word unless you have solid reasons not to. Believe people when they tell you who they are. People constantly communicate who they are but if you are already convinced you already know you will miss what they are telling you and only hear and see what fits with your already-made-up-notions. Observe without prejudice.
- Chase no one for anything.
- Resist the urge to convince others of what you think, believe, support, and desire to defend and know it is impossible to persuade the already convinced.
- People are always communicating. There is no such thing as “no communication.” This is a cop-out catchphrase used when a person prefers to avoid or deny what is being communicated.
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