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How Combining external and internal Knowledge and Awareness Can create authentic communication

We all want and need to get our point across for one reason or another, but how do we get people to listen and really connect to what we have to say? What exactly is it that we want to say…need to say??

Choosing meaningful words & communicating effectively can be difficult, especially when living and working on autopilot. Do you ever stop to smell the roses? And wonder why they smell the way they do? Or wonder where the lemons came from that life gave you? There is great value in studying the patterns and sequences of our lives, the nature of our being, and asking ourselves: Who am I? How am I moving throughout the world? How does the world move around me? Why? How do I leave someone better (or worse) than when I met them? What parts of me or my work get the most positive feedback/response? What am I great at? What am I not so great at? How can I be better? By simply paying attention (and being honest with ourselves), we can find real answers to these questions, and our awareness (both internal and external) can have a profound effect on our interpersonal success.

Objectivity + Subjectivity

It isn’t always easy to study ourselves and our experiences, but doing so allows us to become more comfortable in who we are, make deeper, more meaningful connections, and tell better stories. If you find yourself struggling to tell a story, or if you can’t think of the right things to say, it could be that you need to gain more real-life experience and perspective related to whatever message it is that you’re aiming to get across. Or, you may need to put daily mindfulness to practice in order to unlock the insights and inspiration that will help your message flow. Everything that happens around you has both a reason and a side effect. What takes place inside of you (your response) as a result of these happenings have their own reasons and side effects, too. Once you gain knowledge and perspective as to why things happen, you can combine the facts of life (objective) with your observations and point of view (subjective) and upon your reflection of both, apply the some of the same questions from above to your thinking. If you’re honest with yourself, the answers to these questions will lead to your authentic story.

= Authenticity

When someone watches and listens to you they are doing so from their own personal vantage point and perspective. Depending on who you are and the relationship you have with whomever you’re communicating, most of your influence comes from what that person already knows about you: what role you play or what position you’re in, and what they see when they look at you: how you dress, what facial expressions you make, your posture, and the list goes on. What you say is not always as easily trusted. If you want someone to believe in you, every now and then, you have to make what you say take people beyond what they see. Earning someone’s trust will require you to speak authentically.

Your life lessons and experiences, though unique to you, can be invaluable to others if you effectively communicate them. They are the things that no one can duplicate, they are what make you stand out from a crowd of other people, brands, businesses, marketers, and communicators. Sometimes the lessons we learn in life pale in importance to how and why we learned them. The objective hows and whys provide story structure. The subjective hows and whys provide narrative depth. Combined, they create an impactful story only you can tell.