Keep It Secret!

Whenever you are about to complain about or criticize another, do not simply bite your tongue and suffer the annoyance in silence. All too often this can become another way of expressing discontent. Instead, keep the fact that you are annoyed a secret - think quickly of some good thing about the person or situation and give voice to it, kindly and without guile. Perhaps it will be how much you appreciate this or that little thing, how kind this person is to have taken the trouble of doing such and such, or if this hadn't happened, you wouldn't ever have had the experience of __(fill in the blank)__. Doing so, if it becomes a habit, cannot help but make you a kinder, more thoughtful person!