Are you listening to me?

“There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.”

― G. K. Chesterton

One of my favorite sayings is listen to understand not to reply. I believe that one of the great gifts you can offer to people is your full attention - listening is how you prove them that they are important.

The past weekend during Business Coaching Diploma - Zana - the main trainer of the module offered a good example about listening: how we talk over one another in conversations without even letting the first one finishing their sentence. Because for us is more important what we have to bring to the conversation than listening what the other person has to say.

So while you are reading this think about the time you have talked over a loved one? How your own story trumped the importance in a conversation? How while you are listening to your own voice someone else found out that their story was not as important to you…what are you missing from the things that are important to you in the relations around you, with your loved one, with the non-verbal communication.

Sometimes it is not about the nail…