Communicate Part 5 the "U"! I'm Back...Let's Continue!
I apologize for the long delay in my "communication"! No excuses.....just got caught up in travels and consulting. We had covered 'C', 'O', 'M' and 'M' thus far.... we Care, Observe, Make Time and Movement in our communication with others. So what is this 'U' all about? U: To Understand! To truly enable healthy communication with ourselves as well as with others, we must find the ability to understand. We find the definition of understand to be our ability to grasp the meaning of something and its reasonableness. To understand is to be thoroughly familiar with the character and propensities of something or someone. My thought is that in communication we must really adhere to the part of the definition that states our need to show a sympathetic or tolerant attitude toward something or someone! How tolerant are you of others and even of yourself? What does tolerance mean to you? A simple definition can be one that states our...