What's Your GiG?

Here is the first in a series of tips that I hope will help my friends and readers in their everyday lives.  

Tip #1:  'Listen' is an anagram for 'silent.'

How many times do you catch yourself not really listening to what the person in front of you or on the phone just said because you're waiting to say something yourself.  You've queued up the comment in your mind, and you're just itching to burst forth with it. And then the moment arrives, the other person pauses, takes a breathe, and you launch yourself into the silence, only to watch the person stare at you with a blank face.  You weren't paying attention.  They just mentioned something about their mother being sick and you didn't hear it because you were stuck inside your head. 

Listening to someone is the highest form of compliment, it is the most healing of all medicines, and it is hands down the best way to grow as a person and in relationship. Listening is not done only with ears; ears are the instrument. It is the attention you focus on the other person, and the silence you grant them, that will make the difference in both of your lives.

Be silent, listen to someone today; watch what happens.