{"id":4794,"date":"2014-07-14T19:04:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T01:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=4794"},"modified":"2014-07-08T19:52:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T01:52:46","slug":"before-you-assume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/before-you-assume\/","title":{"rendered":"Before You Assume\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cBefore you \u201cassume\u201d, try this crazy method called asking.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Wow\u2026.that is a powerful quote.\u00a0 When I first read it, it really hit me.\u00a0 It is so true!\u00a0 So often in life we just assume we know\u2026we assume we know what someone thinks, we assume they did something just because someone else said they did, we assume someone doesn\u2019t care about us, we assume someone is wrong, and the list of assumptions goes on and on\u2026.<\/p>\n

So why don\u2019t we just ASK more?\u00a0 Why don\u2019t we just stop ourselves from passing judgment until AFTER we have simply asked the person to tell us themselves?\u00a0 I have wondered about that a lot.\u00a0 I think some of the reasons we don\u2019t just ask might be PRIDE, or EMBARASSMENT, or SHAME, or FEAR, or OUR OWN NEGATIVE ATTITUDE.\u00a0 At least when I think about the times I didn\u2019t just ask someone directly those are probably the reasons that might have stopped me in the past\u2026sad, but probably true.\u00a0 I can\u2019t think of a positive reason why I would ask someone, only stupid selfish reasons and none of them are reasons I would feel proud to have.\u00a0 So what does that say?\u00a0 It says we should ALWAYS ASK BEFORE WE ASSUME.<\/p>\n

If all of us would do that, ask before assume, can you imagine how many less hurt feelings there would be in this world? How many misunderstandings would disappear?\u00a0 How many more friendships would last?\u00a0 How many new friendships might form? How many marriages would survive and be stronger?\u00a0 How many relationships would be happier? How many families would be closer?\u00a0 How many workplace politics could go away?\u00a0 No question the world would be a much happier place.<\/p>\n

So that is today\u2019s challenge for all of us \u2013 Before we assume, try the crazy method called asking\u2026.and see how much happier your life becomes as a result.<\/p>\n

Have an incredible day!
\n~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cBefore you \u201cassume\u201d, try this crazy method called asking.\u201d Wow\u2026.that is a powerful quote.\u00a0 When I first read it, it really hit me.\u00a0 It is so true!\u00a0 So often in life we just assume we know\u2026we assume we know what someone thinks, we assume they did something just because someone else said they did, we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[697,625,4535,4523,4536,46,4533,1203,1705,650,4540,3276,51,93,4541,33,591,2374,180,4542,4539,1053,979,324,35,11,4534,4543,153,2196,723,3383,1773,544,4538,112,2584,2185,416,2479,725,4537,336],"class_list":["post-4794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anger","tag-ask","tag-asking","tag-assume","tag-assumption","tag-attitude","tag-before-you-assume","tag-care","tag-crazy","tag-dating","tag-disagreements","tag-embarrassment","tag-family","tag-fear","tag-fights","tag-friend","tag-friendship","tag-happier","tag-happy","tag-hatred","tag-hurt-feelings","tag-judge","tag-judging","tag-judgment","tag-love","tag-marriage","tag-method","tag-negative-attitude","tag-positive","tag-powerful","tag-pride","tag-proud","tag-quote","tag-relationships","tag-said","tag-self-improvement","tag-selfish","tag-shame","tag-spouse","tag-stronger","tag-stupid","tag-thnks","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4796,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions\/4796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}