1. Escape Your Soap Opera 🎭

We all have that terrible soap opera playing in our heads. Are you operating on theories supported by actual evidence, or just plot points from your internal melodrama?

Fact-check your feelings.

2. Realize Intent's Irrelevance 🔎

The easiest lie is that your intentions were pure. The hardest, most productive cure to that is to ask:

"What am I currently blind to, or refusing to see?"

3. Check Yourself ✋
(Before you Wreck Yourself)

When confronted with an error, do you immediately defend yourself, or do you listen? Defensiveness often feels like dismissal to someone who is hurt. A true apology doesn't come with a "but."

5. Review Safety Measures 🛡️

When a grenade goes off, the pieces fly everywhere, usually destroying more than just the intended target. Don't make other people bleed for a fight that isn't theirs. We dishonor our loved ones by making them carry our sharpnel for us.

6. Don't Plagiarize ✍️

You can try to let other people write your story for you, but it will never feel "right." All the same, do not confuse somebody else's narrative as your own. Certainly don't try to steal it and pass it off as your own. Your story must come from inside of you, errors and all.