KINDNESS TIPS

I may create an e-booklet of these.

June 29, 2009: Ask friends and family not to gossip - talk trash, point out flaws, complain, criticize - about others (and you). Tell them you are on a Gossip Diet and don't want to hear it either. If you don't want confidential info about yourself spread about, don't tell people you know to be gossips. Sometimes the person you confide in tells his/her spouse who is a gossip. Unfortunately some people live for gossip: it's the currency with which they build their social networks. If you remove your "currency" they can't benefit from it. And if you spread gossip, you are fair game to be the subject of more gossip. If you hear someone gossiping, say something to nip it in the bud.

1. "Let's move on to a more constructive topic. Have you read any good books lately?"
2. "Let's not talk about people behind their backs. You wouldn't want others to talk about you behind your back, would you?"
3. "I'm sorry but I've taken an oath to not repeat or listen to gossip. If you're not going to stop, I'll have to leave (or ask you to leave).

Andrea Reynolds

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I'm not a personal injury attorney, but even better, I have an investigative journalism backgound and lateral thinking skills that I use to fight for you, support you and advocate for you without bullying tactics, rudeness, or threats.

"Andrea Reynolds has not only developed her left brain and her right brain equally well, but trained them to talk to each other." Vinod Busjeet, Ph.D., The World Bank, Washington DC

"Where others see the world in black and white, Andrea Reynolds sees the world in blazing technicolour." Robert J. Brown, London Polytechnic Institute, London England

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* No I am not the Andrea Reynolds who had a relationship with Claus von Bulow back in the 80s. While the other Andrea Reynolds and I are close in age, have had same hair color and facial structure, are both writers and both own(ed) bed and breakfasts; she has a Hungarian accent, and mine is American with a slight English-Canadian inflection. But I'm glad you asked so I could clear up the misconception. I hope I haven't disappointed you.