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Friday, June 3, 2016

30 Days of Listening: Day 3

We continue with our 30 days of listening experiment.

Today, spend 15 minutes without your technology--no dinging email notifications, vibrating cell phones, push notifications. Turn off your distractions. It's not so much about having technology or not, but about what's making it too noisy for you to listen. Ambient noise can get in the way of your hearing and listening more clearly.

Have you found yourself texting while having a conversation with someone? Or checked email in the middle of a meeting? Or found your mind racing about tomorrow's to-do's while trying to fall asleep? It's a lot of noise, isn't it?

Cultivate a few minutes of each day, for the next 30 days to be still. Be silent. Observe any differences in your behavior, your mood, your thoughts.

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