Adopt the “continuous learning” approach to living, making better communication an important part of your everyday life.
In order to have your new communication skills available in a wide variety of situations, you will need to practice them in as wide a variety of situations as possible, until, like driving or bicycling, they become “second nature.”
The biggest Challenge is to practice your evolving communication skills in everyday life, solving problems together, giving emotional support to the important people in your life, and enjoying how you are becoming a positive influence in your world.
The biggest Challenge is to practice your evolving communication skills in everyday life, solving problems together, giving emotional support to the important people in your life, and enjoying how you are becoming a positive influence in your world.
This challenge includes learning to see each conversation as an opportunity to grow in skill and awareness, each encounter as an opportunity to express more appreciation, each argument as an opportunity to translate your complaints into requests, and so on.
To master this, you will have to learn how to separate yourself from the current culture of violence, insult and injury, and learning how to create little islands of cooperation and mutuality.
Make the practices described in part 1 through 6 important parts of your everyday living.
Every conversation is an opportunity for you to grow in skill, awareness and compassion.
Work to redefine each of your “opponents” in life as a learning and problem-solving partner.
Help along the processes of change in your family and work life by personally embodying the changes, virtues and styles of behavior you want to see in others.
Tomorrow - I will summarize all 7 Parts.
