listeners please apply
i'm sitting in a coffee shop and conversations are veritably tripping over themselves; people talking fast, sentences overlapping, so eager for the other person to finish talking so they can jump in. i'm guilty of that too, of course, but a webinar i watched recently reminded me of the importance of listening. it's hard work and takes focus & self-control to be sure. on social media and posts everywhere, it seems everyone wants to be an influencer. what if one of the most effective ways to influence our culture isn't what we say but what we don't ? what if people talk so fast because they're not used to being deeply listened to and are constantly afraid of being interrupted? what would it feel like to be deeply heard, not just for our words, but also noticed for our body language (which accounts for most of human communication)? so i did a strange thing today. when i parked in the lot across from a local funeral home, i br...
