It's Your Future - Digital Education Edition v1 | Page 41

RULE #9 Great Communication is a powerful skill worth learning. Invest in becoming an effective communicator. H ow you are able to communicate will either open up many doors for you or slam them shut in your face. Your greatest weapons of healing or destruction are the words you use on a daily basis. You must learn the art of using your words very carefully. Think about what you are going to say daily moment by moment. That is a hard task — even adults. People who speak first and think later surround us in society. People get in so much trouble because they have loose lips or a tongue that hurts peoples’ feelings. JEALOUSY WORDS ARE A WASTE OF TIME Consider are your words being wasted on foolish things like gossip, slander, bitterness, and jealousy? One of the dumbest emotions we can exercise against another person is jealousy. To want to be someone else 25