The Four Agreements: Impeccable With Your Word

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The first agreement in the book “The four agreement” is be impeccable with your word. To be impeccable with your word, it is not easy to take this agreement. It is because you need to give a lot of joy and love to everyone when you speak. However, to be not impeccable with your word, many people can do that. to be not impeccable with your word, you will pull your emotion in your word, try you attack someone with your word, and say something that you are inadvertent.
To be impeccable with your word, you cannot put your emotion when you speak. People like to put their emotion when they speak. Everyone has emotion on every day. Sometime is good emotion like happy or joyful. Sometime is bad emotion like angry, sad, jealous, or hate. If you
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If you have bad emotion, then you need to find a way to express your bad emotion. Some people like to do exercise, or sleeping to release the bad emotion. Also, some people will express their bad emotion when they speak. The easiest way to express your bad emotion when you speak is find someone that do something that you do not like. For example, my friend Ken was very angry on that day. He got a F in the exam because he got cheat. Also he was late to school because his stomach not feeling good but his professor did not believe that and gave him a warming and mark him late on that day. After that, he was feeling angry, stressful, and unfair. Later, I went to have a lunch with him, but I was late because there was a big traffic on my way and I already told him that I will be late. However, when I got there, he started to yell at me. He said “Why you are late. I already told you that we have a lunch at 1 pm. Now, it is 1:20. You late 20 minutes. I have not seen a person like you. Don’t want to have lunch right now! Don’t want to see you! Get out!” Then he left. I was speechless. I already told him that I will be late because there was a traffic. He knew that. He said ok with that. But he yelled at me when I got there. After that, we did not talk to each other for a month ago. When people have bad emotion, they will find a way to release that. If they choose to speak to release their bad emotion, then that will hurt the relationship with that …show more content…
When someone gave you an opinion that you do not agree and do not like it. You will try to argue with that person. Each one wants to make others to agree with their own point of view. Then that will create a conflict. If a person cannot convince someone with their own point of view and feel angry with that, then that person will say something to attack someone to make him feel safe and let someone know you are right. For example, one day, I had a group project of with Ken and one more group mate. We need to choose one topic to present in the class. Each person had their own point of view. Then, we tried to give our own point of view to convince others. After that, our conversation became a conflict because we still cannot find a final decision. Later on, he was not feeling safe because my group mate agreed with my point of view and stood in my side. However, Ken still not agree with my point of view. He knew that our group will choose my point of view. He started to say something to attack other people. He said “I am the smartest one in our group. You guys are stupid, useless, and garbage. You have to follow my point of view.” After we heard that, we felt not happy. At the end, we followed his point of view because we did not want to argue with that topic anymore. Later on, we did not have a group with him no

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