In the language of our ancestors there was a word, affray, which meant to “startle or frighten”. The present tense of this verb is not used anymore, but the past tense has come to be our word afraid. I see alot of fear in communication training… no surprise there. Although different surveys may have varying results a common top ranking fear is the fear of public speaking. To many of us this fear isn’t worth overcoming but how…
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“Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.” – Andrew Jackson Recently, like really recently, I spoke some words to my husband. Words that I thought were just expressing something I wanted him to do for me. Well,he turned around a little later in the evening and essentially spoke them back to me.…
Leave a Comment“A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.” –Helen Rowland quotes (English-American writer, 1876-1950) You could substitute teenager or a whole host of others to include and expand beyond men in this quote but let me start with the main audience I anticipate for this blog and that is women. It seems that I and perhaps by…
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