The Biggest Problem People Have Communicating “The biggest communication problem is that we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply.” Unknown How many times have you “patiently” waited for someone to finish speaking so you could complete your thought? Under the wrong circumstances, we treat pauses as a necessary evil to allow the other person to speak – but only […]
We All Think We Know Better Than Someone Else Have you ever been to the hospital and the doctor, physician’s assistant, or nurse spoke to like you’re little more than an adorable idiot? Ever called customer service and been asked, “Have you tried restarting your computer, sir?”
If You Bottled Up Your Life’s Message, What Would It Say? I live in two different worlds: the blog world and the journal world. One is painfully public and the other painfully private. I don’t write privately for an audience in the same way, so I occasionally get to the conclusion faster.
What Impact Could Your Words Have? Twenty years ago, if you were publishing content on the Internet you were blazing a trail for tens of millions to follow. Your words had the opportunity to shape lives. Not because you were smarter or wiser than everyone else. It’s because you were one of a few voices getting a LOT of attention.
Inspired And Constantly Revising If there’s one true thing that can be said about my digital footprint, it’s that the trail looks like a zombie apocalypse. The dead blogs are redirecting and the undead (abandoned blogs) are traipsing around the interwebs nonchalantly, occasionally chancing upon live prey. My current living (not undead) project is ASelfObserved.com. Stop by and say […]
Words Mean What They’re Used To Mean Despite my typical laid-back demeanor, I’ve been accused of being too rigid regarding word choice in a conversation. It’s true. Many a debate has begun over whether a word “can” be used to mean something outside it’s textbook definition.
