Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears
Seventy-five percent of the time we are distracted, preoccupied or forgetful (according to Hunsaker). Yes, that’s 3/4 of our waking moments spent disconnected from information or people. What kind of results is this getting us (and maybe even you personally)? Here are a few possibilities:
- poor performance at work or school
- arguments propelled by miscommunication
- missed opportunities in business
- resentment between friends, family, colleagues, or countries
- lack of connection with the Divine
Question: So, what’s one thing you can do to minimize your personal distractions, preoccupations or forgetfulness? Is it:
A) Get a Blackberry
B) Throw away your crackberry Blackberry
C) Get a time machine and travel to “simpler times”
D) Give up. Realize you’ll have to live with distraction, overwhelm, and. . .uh. . .fuzzy memory (Some people have legitimate memory issues, and this isn’t poking fun at them.)
Answer: None of the above. The one thing you can do to minimize the negative effects of living at the modern speed of life is. . .learn to listen effectively.
And I’ve got an extremely valuable class that I’m offering to you free complimentary at no charge because I believe that better listening is key to a better life. Below are the basic facts about this class. Click the title of the class to learn more or register.
Listening for Love: Effective Listening for Couples*
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
7-8 p.m. Eastern
Via telephone conference call
(i.e., If you have a phone you can be in the class.)
Our three primary objectives for this complimentary communications class are to learn:
- Why effective listening is vital to a healthy relationship
- The crucial differences between “hearing” and “listening”
- Some of the barriers that prevent you from hearing what’s really being said
*Even though the class is geared to couples, any person, regardless of their current relationship status, can benefit from participating.
If in all our practices of life we could learn to listen . . . if we could grasp what the other persons are saying as they them-selves understand what they are saying, the major hostilities of life would disappear for the simplest reason that misunderstanding would disappear.
~Harry Overstreet
I hope I’ll hear your voice chiming in during our discussion about Listening for Love on November 15. Learn more about this class or register now.
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