Listening Now Blog

Most of us have found ourselves interrupting the person we’re speaking with from time to time.  I’ve noticed it when couples tell stories to friends or visitors.   A lot of comedy is based on well-timed interruptions. I’ve been known to interrupt people I’m talking with (true, true).  We’ve all been told don’t interrupt – not interrupting [...]

Let’s talk a little about some of the most important listening you will ever do:  listening to yourself.  We know it’s important but in our busy busy lives, who has time to listen to themselves, I mean really listen?  Listening to yourself has become a luxury, something that if we had more time, we’d do it more [...]

I committed my own listening sin this week.  Someone I love phoned me just as I was in the middle of watching a segment on a TV show that I really wanted to see.  So instead of saying to the person on the phone “Hey, can I phone you back after this segment I really [...]

 If you’ve landed here, chances are you have come straight from reading my copyblogger guest post  16 Easy Steps to Brilliant Blog Posts.  I’m still working out where I got the nerve courage to send an unsolicited blog post to the internet’s largest online copywriting experts.  I find lots of things in my sock drawer, so [...]