We can all become masters in the art of listening.
We can deepen the richness and expand the colors in the palette that we use to paint the canvas of our lives.
We can discover the nuance and fluidity of expression and emotion that encompasses true connection and conversation.
When we realize the art of listening is something that we have just forgotten and can rediscover.
Are you ready to rediscover the art of listening that is innate within you?
When we are talking in a conversation and our ears are hearing the words and sounds coming out of the other person’s mouth… but are we listening to what they are saying?
Listening involves the whole person.
We need to listen with our whole bodies just as someone speaks using their whole body.
Here are a few questions to get you thinking about your listening skills. Look them over and then really listen to the people who are communicating with you.
- When you are in a conversation are you really listening or are you waiting for the other person to stop talking so you can say the thing you just thought of to say while they were talking?
- Do you allow a pause after the other person stops talking? Leave a pause and listen to what is being said in the silence.
- Do you listen with an agenda? Judging the other person and what they are saying, or maybe thinking of ways to “Fix” it?
- Do you listen with your head or your heart? Spend the week listening with your heart.
- What do you hear when you listen with your heart?
Practice and refine the art of listening as you move through the canvas of your life.
You will be surprised at all of the things you hear.
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A good way to get started setting goals is to figure out where you are
right now.
What do you like in your life and work and what don’t you like.
It’s important to answer both sides of the question because the contrast will help you see where you want to go and give you ideas for goals and actions to take that will help you get there.
- What I do not like about my life right now. (Things to change)
- What I do like about my life right now. (Things to preserve)
- What I do not like about my job right now. (Things to change)
- What I do like about my job right now. (Things to preserve)
- What I do not like about my responsibilities at work right now.
(Things to change)
- What I do like about my responsibilities at work right now. .
(Things to preserve)
- What I do not like about how I spend my time each day. (Things to
change)
- What I do like about how I spend my time each day. (Things to
preserve)
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“Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change.” ~ Wayne Dyer
What have you been looking at that you really want to be different?
Is it your life?
Is it a relationship?
Is it your income?
Is it your career? …
How can you look at this in a different way?
Make a list of all the positive things about what you want to change-
How does that change the way you look at it?
What steps can you take to attract more of these positive aspects to you now and begin to create what you really want?
It’s up to you to choose your path and what you give your attention to along that path. When you choose to look at things that interest you most, devoting your passion, intellect, and focus to that which really makes you thrive.
This changes your focus and brings everything into a new perspective and changes all that comes into your experience.
It’s important for us all to do that, to delete the things that don’t help us focus on our passion or at least delegate them so they get done and our focus remains clear.
With that in mind I made a list of two things that are clouding my focus and will decide this week if I can let them go or if I will delegate them. I feel better already because I know either way I have made the decision to no longer let them cloud my focus.
What things will you put on your list to remove from clouding your focus?
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Your attitude is one of your greatest tools or snags to your 
life success.
If you want to be and feel successful one essential ingredient is an attitude of openness, possibility… You must believe in your success and your ability to create it.
Success comes from you not to you. And where your attitude rests on a daily basis will signal loud and clear to the Universe through the law of attraction whether you really want the success you say you do.
There are numerous books, articles, surveys out there. Interviewing successful people to ask them what their secrets to success are. Attitude it top among those lists.
Almost without exception these successful people said; working on themselves, on their attitude, the focus of their thoughts and their personal growth was the single most important thing they do on a regular basis that is directly related to their continued and increasing life success.
There are many ways to develop a successful attitude and to [click to continue reading…]
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