BITESIZE | How To Stay Calm, Connected And In Control During Difficult Conversations | Jefferson Fisher #627

Welcome to Feel Better Live More Bite Size, your weekly dose of positivity and optimism to get you ready for the weekend. Today's clip is from episode 571 with Jefferson Fisher, trial lawyer, public speaker, and author. Of the next conversation, argue less, talk more. Jefferson believes that better communication can transform not only our relationships, but our health and happiness as well. And in this clip, he shares the three essential principles to better communication and how to shift from reaction to reflection.

by making your first words your breath. In your view, what are some of the common things that get in the way of people communicating effectively? A lot. The number one would be they assume that what is said is what was received. in that instance.

So if I were to tell you something and we've felt this in uh relationships, we felt this at work, you send a message and they hear and they feel something very different. Maybe in an email you wrote something and all of a sudden they go, why are you mad at me? You go, I'm not mad. Or you're talking and somebody says, why are you yelling? You go, I'm not yelling, or I I'm not upset.

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