The card I drew this morning was the blueberry card, representing clarity, i.e. knowing your purpose for being here and showing up in the world." And it encourages us all to be BLUEBERRY BOLD with our purpose!

Ever since I was a child I knew I wanted to improve communications. I sat at our Sunday dinner table each Sunday, my head barely above the tabletop and had to "hear" adult conversation go back and forth over my head until "they" were done. I can remember exactly how frustrated I felt not being allowed to leave the table and not being able to understand a word.

Since this time I have super regard for those in the room during conversations and super regard for making sure that conversations, both written and verbal, meet in the middle, stay synchronized and connect.

Communications is really a simple process ... BUT it does require attention first to one's purpose followed by choice and presentation of words, the sequencing of words going into sentences, the sequencing of sentences and the final organization (sequencing) of paragraphs. Then add on top of it all, in verbal communications, how one's tone and energy contribute to successful communications!
And, as simple as communications is, it is still easy to screw up. Take the verbal greeting of "hello" ....how many different ways can "hello" be received based upon the tone, volume, emotion and energy behind it? So many different types of intentions may be delivered with that one single word! It is a clear example of how easily we can get into trouble if we do not pay attention to our purpose upfront!!

And if we don't have enough confusion in single words (just by their "delivery) our society, in their efforts to help, are continuously adding complexity to our communications. In past sales trainings I have attended, the instructions were to place prospects into quadrants based upon their personality, office surroundings, dress, etc. We were then taught to communicate accordingly! By the time you figured out which quadrant propects fit into, the conversation had moved on .... enough said about that method!

And more examples of creating multiple, sometimes layered, categories just keep coming! I welcome the idea of emotional intelligence but once I read about the categories associated with how "emotional intelligence" is applied, I questioned if this approach can really work? Also in a recent conversation I spoke of demographics in describing one's targeted audience and learned that there are categories of demographics even within a single targeted audience.

My question today is, why complicate it this way? My point being what can possibly happen in the above examples...
- We can miss the mark by muddying up the water too much.
- We can get caught up in the complexity and lose site of the targeted objective!
- We can "GET IN OUR OWN WAY!"... I think we have all heard that before, yes?

I can go on and on with examples of how we make our communications with each other messy and without cause. It can be so upsetting to see the best of intentions develop into chaos due to "getting in our own way."

SO .. I am committed to doing whatever I can to simplify communications and make it easy for you and everyone to communicate. I am committed to my BLUEBERRY BOLD statement and will amplify the importance of the work I do with the following:

-> T.H.E. - my 7 step process for creating communications that achieve targeted objectives in business and at home. You are already using this process daily in your life, as it is in our dna ... we all subliminally apply it to every decision that we make. Becoming aware of it keeps all your communications simple, because once you learn it for one purpose you have it ready at hand for all other purposes! Currently it is available as a training for creating strategies and directives, large/small, long term/short term, it is all the same!

-> Choosing words for our conversations -- what are the words that the recipients of our messages will respond to?

-> Presentation and delivery of our communications - maximizing the success of our messages being read/heard, processed, and correctly responded to! No miscommunication! No gaps!

-> Sales Communications - "every conversation is a sales conversation." We deliver words to receive words back ...i.e. sales. I am determined to remove the fear, complexity, the falsehoods that exist around selling. I have started a membership group for this and am accepting new members now. Let me know if you have interest and would like to be on a waiting list. I also provide private and group sales training!

Yes, I am going BLUEBERRY BOLD! What about you?

What is your purpose? Do you have clarity for your WHAT and your WHY? And when you do know what it is... be it NOW or LATER ... will you go BLUEBERRY BOLD? I hope so!

Here's to your communications success!

#communicationsstrong

margie