“Every professional voice coach worth their salt will bring you back to the importance of tone, pace, and pitch. While these concepts were introduced earlier in The Art of Body Language section, we can now elaborate and take a deeper dive into how you can use your voice to improve your communications.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“Your encounters will be more successful when you slow down, pay attention, and become more mindfully aware of the world around you. Heightening your awareness in your social, situational, contextual, orientational, and cultural scenarios will improve your agility as you adapt to new social settings.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“Mindfulness means paying attention to what is happening at this very moment and being keenly aware of your surroundings and the people in it.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“Whether your awareness is focused on your own emotions and perceptions or directed toward the preferences, needs, and feelings of others, being mindful (aware and attentive) will enable you to respond more appropriately.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“This deliberate focus and sensitivity allow you to "put yourself in another person’s shoes and walk around a while" to better understand where they are coming from and what they are all about.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“This Thanksgiving season, be more hopeful, and have a better attitude. Let go of things that have been hurting you.”
Source: The Gift of Thanksgiving
“Mindfulness is a quiet strength and deeply rooted value which many other cultures understand and often practice better than we do. It can be puzzling to people from other countries as to why Americans are so task-driven and action-oriented.”
Source: The Art of Action: 8 Ways to Initiate & Activate Forward Momentum for Positive Impact
“Developing this ability instills a sixth sense for navigating human relationships with dignity, grace, and discretion, thus making an intentional and thoughtful first impression.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“As Americans, we typically move full steam ahead without much regard to mindfulness or thoughtful reflection, often to one’s own detriment. Yet it is that same propensity for bold action which makes fulfilling the "American Dream" possible—where an immigrant can come to our country with nothing and achieve extraordinary things.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“Although it may serve you well, any strength or skill which is overused can become a limitation when it forces you to constantly be moving and looking for the next best thing. Distractions, interruptions, and incessantly chasing after the next golden ring can become the norm.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact