The power of active listening Day 2 A person has four choices when talking to another person. Actively listen, provide silent feedback like nodding of the head or leaning forward, and ask questions to better understand the person’s perspective Think intently on their own next words Interrupt the person Ignore them and think of other …
English-speaking excellence can seem like walking on a tightrope. The wrong word, like the wrong movement, sends you spinning out of control. Balancing words, emotions, people, and ideas require a keen grasp of both the here and now as well as who you are as a person. Now some consider being “balanced” as boring or …
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Holiday season is upon us. The biggest change to a holiday dinner isn’t vegan turkey but getting the kids to put down their cellphones. John McGory decided to write a book to help grandparents and kids to talk. Instead of dinner talk with grandma and grandpa, the ubiquitous head-down pose of youngsters grabbing a glance …
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Holiday season is upon us. The biggest change to a holiday dinner isn’t vegan turkey but the complete addiction to mobile technology. English-speaking improvement takes a hit when the phones come out. Instead of dinner talk with long-lost aunts, uncles, and cousins, the ubiquitous head-down pose of people grabbing a glance at social media feeds …
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Improving English takes effort and a plan. John McGory’s new book provides a unique strategy: using yinyang to improve English. The key to yinyang is accepting balance. Good English or bad English are not two things but one. An excellent English speaker realizes the importance of both sides of a feeling, thought, or emotion. “Take …
The shy can speak English well. But does shyness hold you back? Do you have a lot to offer but are afraid to share? Humans’ most amazing gift is the ability to talk. Scientists still don’t know how we do it. Unfortunately, shyness stops many people from being successful. Shyness creates a river of emotions …
Change in lives can explode like the raging flood in the photo above or overcome us with the subtleness of a drip, drip, drip of water. Whether we like it or not, change is wide awake doing its mind-blowing work every day before we get out of bed because it never sleeps. We have no …
Does life feel at times like you’re riding a bucking bronco, where it tosses you up and down and side to side? Maybe there’s a better way to life. The brilliant Chinese scholar, Lao Tzu, wrote a classic book, The Book of the Way and of Virtue, in the 6th century BC. His masterpiece influenced …
“There’s a force in the universe that makes things happen. All you have to do is get in touch with it, let things happen and be the ball….Just be the ball, be the ball, be the ball. You’re not being the ball Danny,” Chevy Chase as Ty Webb in the movie, Caddyshack Ty Webb’s (Chevy …
