When To STFU!

• None of your business: STFU

• Someone else is talking: STFU

• Someone else’s choices & decisions: STFU if you don’t agree

• Someone sharing their personal boundaries: STFU if you don’t agree

• Actively listen to others: STFU

• Politics & Religion: STFU unless invited to debate

• About to religiously or politically proselytize: STFU

• Don't agree with someone else's beliefs: STFU

• About to cuss someone out: STFU

• Someone else is being mindful & still: STFU

• About to tell lies: STFU

• Don't approve of tattoos and body piercings: STFU

• Tempted to judge others: STFU

• About to say something mean, cruel, judgmental about someone else to them or to others about them: STFU

• About to say something arrogant or bullying to someone else: STFU

• About to say something not helpful: STFU!

• About to voice unsolicited advice or reprimand: STFU

• Don’t approve of someone or something (doesn’t apply to public figures who, by the nature of their jobs, are subject to approval/disapproval): STFU

• About to make fun of others: STFU

• Think you’re better than someone else: STFU

• About to be a know-it-all: STFU

• You notice someone has gained weight, lost their hair, etc. and want to say something to or about them about it: STFU

• About to brag about your possessions, where you life, how much money you make, your social power, etc.: STFU

• Don’t approve of someone’s lifestyle: STFU

• Don’t agree with someone’s pronouns, gender preferences: STFU

• Not certain your “facts” are true: STFU

• Not knowledgable about a topic: STFU

• About to say something that is not empathetic or not compassionate: STFU

• You’re about to be a ‘Karen’ or a ‘Ken’: STFU

Those are my top reasons to STFU. Yes, I slip up sometimes, and then I get to remind myself of how I’d rather respond. What are your STFU suggestions?  Please share your stories, thoughts, and insights by either commenting below this post if you are reading this on social media, or, if you are reading this through your email subscription, please share, by emailing me, at reimaginelife22@gmail.com.

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