Hmmm, I have goals for this year, but not resolutions (see answer to this question from last week. But something I plan to begin this year is to be more aware of the words I use. It was pointed out to me this weekend that I can be completely oblivious to how my words sometimes come across. And to be brutally honest with myself, I'd have to say its more than sometimes. I can be trying to help, or point out a better/easier/whatever way...but in reality, the person that I am speaking to only hears one thing.

"You're wrong."

I grew up in that kind of enviroment. I could never do anything right, never good enough. So I know where this comes from. Its a difficult thing to change. Something so embedded in your mind and the way you think, that you don't even realize you do it. It is NEVER my intention to make someone alywas feel wrong....to make them feel small and belittled. NEVER. Those that know me, know that knowing I have made someone, ANYONE, feel this way, crushes me. Hearing how I made this person feel over the weekend, my heart is heavy, its broken, and its horribly sad. That isn't the kind of person, mom, partner, friend, or co-worker I want to be. So, somehow, someway, I am going to figure out how to control what I say and be more uplifting instead of seemingly always having to be right.