Listen with Your Heart

One of the best ways to improve your listening skills is to truly listen to another with your whole heart.

Here are some tips on how to do this well:

1. Give the person talking your entire attention, regardless of what else might be going on around you.
2. Hang on the words of the other person as if he or she is the most important person in the world to you. (At that moment, the person speaking should be.)
3. Listen with your heart. Your ears will hear the words but your heart will hear the meaning.
4. Stay quiet, except to ask clarifying questions. Try not to inject your own thoughts - just let the other person speak.

You will be very surprised at both how hard this is and how rewarding it is!

Let me know how it goes!

the communication guru