You may feel that others are grossly misinterpreting your words today. Your apparent inability to get your point across can become a hindrance in your relationships, as both the people you care about and the people you share professional duties with may be confused by your messages and thus unable to respond to you successfully. To ease the mounting frustration both you and your peers are likely feeling, you may need to be more careful than usual in your approach to dialogue. If you take the time to think through each point you plan to make during your conversations today, you may discover that you can reframe your chosen words, clarifying your meaning.

The ambiguities commonly found in speech can be so easily misinterpreted, and we can communicate more effectively when we take the time to assess our words before we allow them to slip from between our lips. Taking care to frame our thoughts within the context of other related notions permits us to present a fully formed argument without having to draw upon opinions that do not hold up under scrutiny. We can communicate effectively with people from a wide variety of backgrounds as our ability to express facts is not hindered by our emotional attachment to our individual positions. Our attachment to our ideas, removed in this way from the realm of the irrational, serves only to enhance our relationships with our conversational partners. Your ability to effectively communicate today will be improved by your pledge to think before speaking.