To avoid judgments, pay attention to your thoughts. Judgmental thoughts will lead to judgmental words. To avoid judgmental thoughts, let go of the oughts and shoulds. Stop beating yourself up for what you should have done. Instead of focusing on, “I shouldn’t have done…” Think about why you did what you did. What were you thinking and feeling at the time?

A puke chute for, those of you who are not familiar with cross country races, is the chute. that cross country runners run into at the finish line of the race. As a volunteer at a puck chute, I learned that once runners enter the chute, some of them puke, (hence the name), others fall down, or others just stop, unwilling to endure the pain any longer.