Monday, April 12, 2010

XYV

With a gleeful snicker, most any kindergartener can demonstrate their newly acquired alphabetic ability to an unzipped friend, “XYZ.”


You might have been the embarrassed-and-hopefully-not-scarred-for-eternity recipient. Or you could have been the thinking-you-were-clever-and-glad-it-wasn’t-you deliverer of the phrase. XYZ.


Examine. Your. Zipper.


As adults we may still use the phrase. We may still snicker. Or be embarrassed. Depending on which end of the phrase we are on.


How about a new phrase that more often & more seriously applies to adults? XYV.


Examine. Your. Values.


Just as the downed zipper may expose the garments we think are guarded, so too do our words, or lack of, & our actions, or lack of, speak of our values.


No matter what you say.


No matter what you do.


Your values are showing.


XYV.


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