Laurinda Handlik and her board put together an evening of great networking for Long Island busniess owners as NY Business Alliance celebrated its First Anniversary. Thanks to all.
Tranquility Based Life Coaching Table
Katherine Leo and the AFLAC duck
John Hill and Mike Benti from LIASB
Tiffany O'Reilly with the winner of the Tranquility Based Life Coaching basket
As a life coach, it is my job to consciously listen. Seems like that should be easy considering we have two ears and the natural ability to process speech, but hearing is not conscious listening.
While I agree that we live in a multi-tasking, fast-paced world, I disagree with the idea that the world has changed. The world remains the same; we have changed. We have turned our world into “social media” and are consumed with our cell phones, texting, and emailing.
Not only do I consciously listen, I consciously watch people. What I see 
is people barely completing one call before going on to the next as well as fingers moving frantically across micro/macro keyboards in order to send messages along as quickly as possible. Even when speaking directly, often the listener is not fully engaged but waiting to get their point across or appearing to be distracted by some “mind chatter” from within. Where is the processing time; the time to reflect on what is being said and to understand the true meaning that often is hidden behind the words?
I teach my clients to meditate, which is just another way of saying become quiet. In that quiet one can hear the exquisite sound of silence–a sound that soothes the mind and comforts the soul.
Conscious listening not only helps us communicate and relate better with our business clients, our family and friends, but more importantly, it opens a gateway that allows our Higher Power to reveal inner understanding and wisdom to us.
7 minutes 50 seconds to be exact, to watch this great video my friend Dean Mercado of Online Marketing Muscle shared with me and learn how to be a conscious listener.
“Great post Jean! Working and interacting with small business owners everyday, it’s amazing how much their scarcity mindset holds them back… especially in times with the economy in flux.”
“I agree that the beginning of one’s success starts with the belief that they can (and deserve) to have it! One of the reasons I firmly believe that everyone should have a coach to keep them functioning in a space of abundance.”
It is true that what we learn as children about money, worthiness, and success has a profound effect on our life. Childhood beliefs remain stored in our subconscious mind or as Wayne Dyer calls it our “habitual mind.” Although we become adults, our “habitual mind” continues to retrieve those beliefs and mindsets, much like the operating system that runs our computer, and they influence how we feel and act.
The business owner who comes from a “scarcity” mindset believing that it is difficult to succeed in this economy is replaying the programming of failure. He or she expects to meet up with resistance, at best, but more likely a “no” on his or her next sales call.
We are energy beings capable of sensing how others feel. Why would you expect a prospective client to believe that you are the right person to do business with, if you don’t consciously create and project that image?
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