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Five Signatures You Must Avoid

with horizontal or verti-
F cal strike-through strokes
O (like my reader Mr

R Chaturvedi has), get rid
G of it because every time

E you do a signature like
R this, you reinforce what-
Y ever the strokes stand for.

If it’s self-hatred, you
D will dislike yourself even

E more and take rash steps
C to sabotage everything
E you have accomplished

P or achieved. Therefore,
T keep it plain ‘n’ simple.

I
O Photo Courtesy of google.com (2) CAMOUFLAGE
N fore, if we change the way herself in 2008 under the SIGNATURE

we sign our names, it will pressure of exams. The To be honest, I had this
L result in a change of at- girl wrote in her suicide type of signature till about

I titude far more conducive note that she was taking four years ago. On the
E to interpersonal harmony. the extreme step because face of it, the signature
S Let’s see how. she was not well-prepared looks clean and there are

for her exams. The base- no twisted strokes here.

JUNK THESE line of her suicide note But notice the first letter
SIGNATURES clearly said she was de- of my name and a circle
pressed and her signature around it. Now, here is

(1) STRIKE-THROUGH said she really did not like the problem. The stroke
SIGNATURE herself. Look at the strike- is not right. The circle,

This is one kind of signa- through strokes in her which kind of camouflag-
ture which I always find handwriting. Such strokes es my first name, is self-
alarming. The signature in signatures reflect self- limiting. Circles around

you see on your right has hatred, a tendency to stab the first name shows the
been lifted from the sui- and punish oneself. That’s person gets very defen-

cide note of a Mumbai- exactly what the girl did. sive in public and he is
based girl who killed If you have a signature

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