How Your Approach to Communication Is Incorrect
The approach to communication can be summed up in one simple maxim:

Learn about yourself. Master yourself. Ask questions, test assumptions, and practice what the best communicator in the world would do every day. Be that person. Don’t worry about tactics, strategies, etc. Master yourself and you will understand all. You will also forgive all when you understand all.
Start with the foundation; yourself. Everything else will flow into place.

That’s it. That’s my approach to communication. Everyone wants to start with “this is the way.” Did I just do that? No. This process of mastery, which is a never-ending journey, is a process of surrendering to they rhythm of life.

There is rhythm in everything; our resistance to this rhythm is what causes blockage in our lives. The manly thing or “tough” thing to do is to force things. “I am the captain of my ship.” True, but you are not the captain of the wild ocean that controls how your boat floats. So why resist it?
Do the best with your boat but don’t expect to control the ocean; flow with it.
Discipline yourself to be the best on the boat you have through positive habits and daily practice on the things that are most important. But don’t for one second think you can control life.

Let life lead you. Try it. Try it for a day. Then a week. Be consistent and just see what happens.
If there is one thing I know it is this:
When we let life lead, it leads us to where we need to go; where we must go.
When we try to lead life (see the word try), we run into suffering.

Struggle is necessary but not suffering. Suffering will come on its own. Why add to it through trying.

Just be and do. Be a follower of life and do the things necessary each day.
Life is simple; not easy.
We tend to complicate things.
Alan Watts brilliantly put it this way:
“This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”
Question of the Day:
How can you become the person you need to be to achieve your highest aim?
In strength,
Coach G
