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Why Communication Is Such An Important Life Skill

April 17, 2023 John Uncategorized No comments

As you progress through life, communication plays a major role. You might say it gets you where you want to go.

Get on board with GenuLines as we take a closer look at this thing called communication.

Why Communication Is Such An Important Life Skill

Your communication skills can help take you far in both your career and your personal life. Now, you might be thinking technology makes these skills outdated.

But in today’s world, they’re even more important.

Come along with GenuLines as we show you what good communication can do for you.

Improve Your Social Life

It’s obvious that being a good communicator can improve your social life. It impacts loved ones, from friends to significant others to family members.

When you communicate well, you also tend to listen well. The two go hand in hand.

You tend to have fewer disagreements, dramas, and fights. You’re better prepared to make your feelings known in a clear and concise way.

You’ll be more able to get to the source of your problems instead of letting them linger or spiral out of control.

Improve Your Professional Life

Successful people tend to blend good effective leadership with good communicating ability. Leaders at work are responsible for guiding, informing, and managing their workforce.

They have to be able to communicate what they need to do, how they need to do it, and then make corrections when necessary. It takes excellent communication skills to get that job done.

Make You a Better Person

As we said earlier, excellent communication skills help you to be a better listener. and have less conflict because you’re better prepared to resolve issues. This improves your friendships and relationships, making them stronger and longer-lasting.

You listen more and better and you don’t hold on to bad feelings. You communicate them and do it well.

You’re a good friend, employee, leader, and a better person all around.

Get things done

This includes how you work through problems, discuss issues, and finish projects. Constant electronic contact may cause you to neglect your communication skills.

But you need those same skills to succeed in electronic communication as you do in person. Work on these points to improve your relationships, your career, and your life on the whole.

Honing your communication skills can do a lot to improve your life and make you a better and happier person.

JohnK 4/17/2023

chiforyourself.com

Overheard: “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place”

~George Bernard Shaw

Article photo by Vanderlei Longo: https://www.pexels.com/photo/silhouette-photography-of-steel-tower-2081132/

Personal Growth: Find Things You Need To Work On

February 7, 2022 John Uncategorized No comments

Life’s ups and downs move you through a process known as personal growth. There’s a lot to keep track of while you make this journey.

This “road map” from GenuLines can help make your sailing a little smoother.

Personal Growth: Find Things You Need To Work On

Personal growth is the process of developing and bettering yourself. You can work on this throughout your life.

How does a person figure out what parts of their life they need to work on? Everyone has some part of like they need or want to improve.

It’s one thing to want to improve some part of life. It’s another thing to actually do it.

How do you go about making a change in your life? Especially if you’ve spent most of your life up to this point living day-to-day?

Do you ever think about the things in your life that you’re sure you’d like to change? Finding things, you need to work on is not as complicated as we make it.

Start where you are.

Project You

An important skill for life success is self-development. But self-mastery and general competence in daily life are only the beginning.

Tap into your own motivation and drive to find the path to elevate yourself beyond the status quo. You are your own self-development project.

You are the boss, the architect, and the quality control team.

Start With A-List

Make a list of what YOU think you need to work on. Then pick one and create a plan of tasks to take on one at a time.

Do this once a month.

Some of your goals will change. Others won’t matter anymore.

Some new items will pop up. There is nothing more satisfying than marking off a goal you have accomplished.

Treat Yourself

Making progress is motivating. Reaching milestones lights the fire to keep going.

Reward yourself for progress along the way. Rewards don’t have to be extravagant.

They could be as simple as watching a favorite movie or treating yourself to a favorite take-out meal. A small treat after hard work, and reaching a goal is a great way to motivate yourself to stay on track and keep going.

Celebrate that progress.

Network

Share your goals and vision with like-minded individuals. This can be friends, supportive family, or even social media groups.

You don’t have to all be in the same physical location to support each other. You’re not alone in your desire for change.

Revise, Regroup, And Reframe

If it’s broke, fix it. Don’t be inflexible about your methods.

When you are working on personal growth you have to be open-minded and a little flexible. Sometimes the best plans fail.

It’s ok.

Nothing has to be perfect. You have a lifetime to work on improving yourself and reaching goals.

If a plan needs adjusting make the change. Then get started again right away.

Expand Your Mind

Personal improvement doesn’t happen in a single day. This journey is a process.

The change is gradual.

There are many ways to create a growth mindset in your life. Browse social media, read self-help books, or psychology books.

Consider studying goal setting, attending conferences, and listening to podcasts. to open your mind up to new ways of personal growth.

Final Thoughts

These are only some of the tips and tools to help you on the journey to personal growth. Life is an ever-changing journey.

At different stages in life, your goals and perspectives may change. Keep going in the process for self-knowledge, self-mastery, and personal improvement.

This is one aspect of living a fulfilling and balanced life.

JohnK 2-7-2022

chiforyourself.com

Overheard: “The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live”

~Mortimer Adler

Bringing Mindfulness to the Workplace: My Kind of Business Model (plus a look at this week’s Chi For Yourself)

May 7, 2014 John Uncategorized No comments

Plan to be with us on Thursday May 8th as Chi For Yourself welcomes Melonie Dodaro. Melonie was named Canada’s #1 LinkedIn expert and social media strategist! She’ll be talking about social media marketing and about the launch of her new book The LinkedIn Code: Unlock The Largest Online Business Social Network to Get Leads, Prospects & Clients for B2B, Professional Services and Sales & Marketing Pros. The interview gets underway at 1pm Pacific, 4pm Eastern time.

You’ll be able to hear it on chiforyourself.com. I’m sure you’ll what you hear!

Melonie Dodaro

Article: Bringing Mindfulness to the Workplace: My Kind of Business Model

In the brave new world of business, mindfulness is not often the normal state of consciousness when we go to work every day. We compete with our co-workers, and tune out customers in a bid to get ahead.

Business ethics that lean toward the quest for the almighty dollar at any cost displace humanity, but we can change that. Kindness to our colleagues in the form of cooperation can end workplace disagreements. Listening to what the customer says, instead of tuning them out and giving the standard, ‘I can’t help you’ answers can bring the human element of caring back to business.

The corporate culture is so often driven by an ego-based mindset that works on the old “dog-eat-dog” mentality dominated by fear, greed, power, and control- all fertile ground for scarcity, separateness, limitation, and the need to be combative in order to succeed. Both individuals and the workplace itself (and the work getting done) benefit from cultivating a healthy workplace environment.

Automation may be a preferable business approach but it allows us to forget human values. Next time your coworker is stressed and trying to make a deadline, ask her if you can assist. Next time a customer needs a hand, listen and really try to help him toward a solution. Even in an impersonal environment of automation, we still need humanity to survive.

JohnK 5-7-2014

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