6 Ways to Elevate Your Life by Elevating Your Communication
Self development and communication are two areas of life that are inextricably connected to one another—you really can’t optimize one without the other.
- Let’s say you want to improve your health (self development). How will you do it? It starts with a clearly articulated health goal (communication).
- Let’s take another area of self development—relationships. Let’s say you want to improve your relationship with your significant other. How will you do it? You’ll need to start with communication.
- And how about your personal and professional goals? Clearly, goals are a big part of self development; but where did your goals come from? In order for a goal to be a goal, it needs to be clearly articulated and committed to paper—that’s communication. Even if the only person you communicate your goals to is yourself—it’s still important to communicate them clearly so that you know what you’re striving for.
Here’s what I’ve learned from studying this area for nearly a decade:
Masters of life are masters of communication. You can’t have one without the other.
That said, today I'll be sharing a few communication strategies you can begin to implement immediately to help you improve your life, achieve your goals, and grow yourself in the process...
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Books Mentioned:
There are tons of books on self development and communication. Here are three that I’ve found useful.
- Stand and Deliver by Dale Carnegie
- Leading an Inspired Life by Jim Rohn
- Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg
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