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To lovingly tend the garden of your mind every day, sift your thoughts for gold, choose your words wisely, and engage in conversations that matters. You will sow the seeds of an abundant harvest and keep the weeds at bay.
It goes without saying that we live at a time, in the knowledge age, that external distractions are compounding. Everything keeps moving faster and faster. We are all so busy: there are so many things we need to do, and many more things going on around us all at once. It can be quite hard to create the mental and physical space necessary to really listen to another human being.
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To create mental space to listen well to another human being is not easy. This time in history has been referred to as the attention deficit age. And it is no wonder. Everything moves fast and seems to keep moving faster. There are often so many things we need to do and so many more activities going on at once around us. The mechanics of hearing sound may be simple, but keeping the concentration necessary to process meaning from words and sentences is not.
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Speak less so you listen more. When you feel the tension in a conversation, you might be surprised at how this one simple strategy can quickly turn a conversation about what’s wrong into a conversation about what we can do to make things better.
