Lee Iacocca said, “You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere”.
One of the trickier things about social skills is to get your message across. One reason why people have difficulty with this is because they use more words than needed.
1. Clarity. Obviously. If you only use what is needed then there will be less room and risk for misunderstandings.
2. Emotional punch. When your message is focused and clearly directed instead of muddled and lost in too many words it becomes more powerful.
3. Less risk of boredom. Even though you may think what you are saying is most interesting thing since we first discovered YouTube others may not share this feeling.
4. You’ll be less eager to stroke your ego. By complicating things and wanting to be clever you reinforce your negative habit. You’ll focus too much on yourself and what others may think of you.
5. It keeps the rest of your communication more focused and aligned. If you keep your mind focused on what you are trying to convey and on the people you are talking to you are a lot more focused compared to if you just ramble on. When your mind is more focused on these two things the rest of your body plays along more easily. And your body language and voice tonality is 93 percent of your communication.
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