Power of Listening: Components, Challenges and Improvements
Do you find yourself listening intently to others or just hearing them? This episode of Get a G.R.I.P. with Coach Elix dives deeper into the power of listening. Coach Elix and his guest, Steven F. Macek, discuss common challenges surrounding listening and some of the listening components that are worth paying attention to in your conversations.
Learn tactics for improving your relationships based on how you listen to others. The ideas Coach Elix and Steven discuss in this podcast episode can alter your approach to communication.
About Guest Steven Macek
Steven "The Medium" Macek knows all about the power of listening through his work as a psychic medium. He must listen to the spiritual messages he receives and put himself in his client's shoes when he delivers these messages. He is a frequent guest and co-host on Get a G.R.I.P with Coach Elix and offers insight into human connection, spirituality, and much more.
Everyone Has the Freedom to Hear, but Not Everyone Listens Powerfully
You may think you're an effective listener, but one of the critical challenges about listening is that it requires extra effort. You need to put this effort into each conversation to hear and listen. This ultimately changes the way that all of your conversations can go.
Steven explains that there are several different lanes a conversation can go down depending on how well you handle the components of listening. If you start tuning out, it can go down one lane. The conversation will go down an entirely different lane if you only listen for what you want to hear.
Listen To Connect With Someone's Spirit and World
One of the most challenging things about listening is that someone's words are always up for interpretation. You need to understand what someone is thinking and feeling to fully understand their words and how they want you to interpret them.
This episode acknowledges that it's hard work and takes a lot of practice to do this. However, once you start to connect to someone's world while listening to them, it will improve your relationship and lead to fewer conflicts or miscommunication.
How To Become a Better Listener
Coach Elix and Steven discuss the essential components of listening powerfully. By focusing on the other person, showing interest with eye contact, and following up with helpful responses, you'll become more in tune with their world. Connecting with their world as they speak is the key to being a great listener.
Connecting with Steven F. Macek
The G.R.I.P. Method
G.R.I.P. stands for "Greatness Requires Intention & Purpose," and many who have followed this method can attest to that. This strategy helps people find their goals, inspirations, and visions and execute them with clear intentions through planning, purpose, and integrity. It works with science and psychology to make dreams a reality.
It is a roadmap that guides you through struggles and hardships, with the final destination being the life you want to lead or the changes you wish to make. The G.R.I.P. Method offers a plan to go from fear to freedom and helps you break away from where past attempts did not work.
