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Meeting of minds

Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don’t just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn’t just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.” —Theodore Zeldin

Choose Your Words Wisely

“I think that the number one rule to effective communication should be ‘choose your words wisely’. This is because a simple choice of your words can make a great difference and determine whether your message would be accepted or rejected.” — Jason Maisons

Thought for today and a few of my own on being present

“When we are fully present, we have access to our greatest power, creativity and ability to communicate and perform exceptionally at whatever we are doing.”  — Christopher Babson Has this time of social isolation given you greater opportunities to communicate and become closer as a family?  Even for the many who are now working fromContinue reading “Thought for today and a few of my own on being present”

Speaking too highly of yourself

“Speaking too highly of yourself might, at best, earn you admiration and respect, but by doing so, you are isolating yourself. You are constantly telling others how different you are from them and pushing them further away from you.” ― Dr. Prem Jagyasi

Isn’t this a beautiful day?

  I know there are people who don’t like talking about the weather.  They consider it shallow, trivial, a waste of time.  But I will talk about the weather any day. Why?  Because two (or more) people are actually talking about something. And that’s where true communication starts: by talking about something.  Starting out withContinue reading “Isn’t this a beautiful day?”