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When you speak, do you listen?
And when others speak, do you hear?
There is a voice inside your head that loves to interrupt. It chimes in all the time - it cuts across other people when they speak to you and gets in the way when you speak to them, making you forget your thread.
This weeks tip of the week is a simple technique that lets you silence that voice so that you can start to really hear and listen.
Try this out today - and practice it whenever you can. It seems awkward at first, but you'll soon see how powerful it can be.
For really listening to what other people are saying to you, repeat their words inside your head AS THEY SAY THEM.
This does two things. It makes sure that you have really heard what they are saying, and it blocks your inner voice from taking you on sidetracks.
When you are speaking, do the same thing - echo the words you utter inside your own head. This makes you concentrate on the flow of your own words better and prevents many of the irritating filler words (um, eh, ah, like, y'know) from popping out.
As soon as you start to speak more fluently, without all the fillers cluttering up your meaning, people will start to respond to what you say rather than the way you say it.
Give it ah a try um, you'll like soon see ah that it, you know, works um wonders in your er communications. :-)
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