be a better listener

Less talking and more listening. I hate facing my short comings, but this is one of them. I need to listen more, engage people in a conversation and not turn it around to be about me or my experiences. I don’t like the way this must come across to people, and I am working on it. I love to hear about peoples everyday life. I don’t mind hearing about peoples jobs, family, and daily adventures. I realize some people don’t want to hear or know that stuff about others. Still working on this.

I am learning to listen more and speak less. I know my eldest daughter needs an ear and a shoulder right now. I have been doing better than I had in the past at listening rather than talking. Since I come from a family of talkers, this is a struggle.

I am learning to listen more and speak less. I know my eldest daughter needs an ear and a shoulder right now. I have been doing better than I had in the past at listening rather than talking. Since I come from a family of talkers, this is a struggle.

I am learning to listen to my daughters concerns about her divorce and what she is going to do with her life. She really just needs to vent and ponder right now. I am fighting the urge to give her unsolicited advice. I think that she just needs to lean on me a little bit while she gets over the shock of the seperation and pending divorce. So I am just listening and hugging and holding in the mother smother until I feel she is ready.

I have become better at listening and censoring my responses. I feel better about my improving conversational skills. I still enjoy a good debate about subjects that I feel strongly about, but I don’t enter into a debate or comment strongly on subjects that I don’t feel strongly about any longer. People get tired of someone who always has something to say.

I am becoming a better listener and better at refraining from offering my opinion so freely. I am very opinionated, but I only see that as a problem because I am to free with my opinion. I am getting better at keeping it to myself. Listen and digest.

I an making some progress. Included with this goal, I want to be a little more careful about who I enter into political discussions. I am getting good at refraining from entering conversations with people that do no more than become an arguement.

I still have a long way to go. I have to refrain from commenting on peoples thoughts all of the time.. Sometimes they just want to express a thought or a feeling and they don’t need or want my input.

I am still working on this with some but limited success. I will have to try harder to acquire the skill of listening.

I think this is one of the hardest goals I have set. I have been told I need to listen better, instead of talking. I have been told that I am a great listener. I think I need to listen more without having to offer my own opinion or “empathitic” story. Not everyone wants to know that you have had a similar experience, and sometimes they just need you to listen.