No Opinion

I received good advice about listening.  Listen like you have no opinion.  I realize how hard that is to do.  I am too ready to critique while supposedly listening to someone.  I am coming up with some answer or something to say.  In prayer, I am supposed to be listening to God.  I am not so sure sometimes.  If I am not hearing or feeling what I want or think is supposed to happen, I "get to thinking."  Or when an event happens in my life that I did not plan or expect, do I listen to the event or just whine, critique and complain?  When someone speaks up in a meeting, am I judging before they say anything? Tough to learn if I am going to be this way about listening.