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RESPOND, don't react!

That's what I say, anyway, as the basis of how to talk to people better - how to improve your communication skills.

As you'll hear if you listen to the YouTube video below, where I also discuss Michael Lee's 'improve your communication skills' wisdom.

This is one area I consider myself to be an expert - the area of improving the skills of communicating - as, alas, I've needed to do a lot of improving...

Improve Your Communication Skill and Succeed

What I say...

So what's the difference between responding and reacting? Great question, and glad you asked, but... you KNOW the difference, really!

Responding is all about listening to what's being said - really listening - and replying from a place of love (rather than fear - which is where anger comes from).
Reacting is about ignoring everything BUT what you think is being said, and blasting a reply back 'from the hip' without giving it due thought.

As I say in the video below, it's about 'how I feel' rather than 'what you do' - it's about taking responsibility for YOUR feelings, but still sharing them with the other person. And it's about allowing the other person to do the same.

This is how I go about improving my communication skills these days.

Oh, I'm also a BIG fan of using silence in communication too. (It works on your own too, and it's called meditation.)

Michael's wisdom on communication skills is commonsense really: