If the skill of participatory listening came effortlessly and easy for everyone, there would not be so many misunderstandings, communication breakdowns, irritations, and frustrations.

It is generally believed that nearly 40 percent of your first impression will be set from the tone of your voice. Your vocal thermometer can be more impactful than the actual words you use.

Your tone of voice can be conveyed in both the words you speak and in the words you write.

Your tone can represent the character of your business, the strength of your resolve, and express the depths of your convictions.

Align your voice value with the tone, pace, and pitch of your listeners will help you connect on all levels.

When your speaking style is clear, confident, and concise, your listeners will perceive you as such.

Developing your eloquence and enunciation will reduce the likelihood of misinterpretation and misunderstanding, making your delivery more powerful.

By speaking in a competent and confident way, your message will sound more relevant and appropriate, reflecting you in a favorable light.

Variety is the Spice of Life. Voices come in all shapes, tones, and sizes. Some are compelling and effective, while others are grating and agitating.

Think of the times that others remembered your name and used it kindly. How did it make you feel? When you use someone’s name it makes him or her feel recognized, appreciated, and special.

What determines whether the usage is acceptable or inappropriate? If you want to make a great first impression with positive impact, it is essential that you know there is a difference.

The Creator is a Counselor.

Tennis is the loneliest sport.

I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.

You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.

Pain is essential. Often I cannot avoid it.Therefore all one can do is redeem it; and the only way to redeem it is through literature, art, poetry, music.

Over a period of years he collected thousands of discples. Many became his students. Many didn't become his students but whenever he was in town they would go and see him.

Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.

Sixty-five seconds," he said. "You weren't breathing for sixty-five seconds after we found you. I lived and died during each one of them." He let out a breath. "Never again.

Santa cAme early this year! good things come to those who wait! ❤ #rebelheart

Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.